Quotes from Dolly Parton

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Energy begets energy.

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I have little bones.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.