Quotes from Dolly Parton

Although I look like a drag queen's Christmas tree on the outside, I am at heart a simple country woman.

The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I flapped open the lid of my cardboard guitar case and whipped out my old Martin. Mr. Killen seemed a little taken aback. I think he wasn't sure whether I was going to play the guitar or brain him with it. He breathed a sigh of relief when I went into a song. Bill hustled his guitar out as fast as he could and joined in. I sang loud and strong with the security that comes with knowing that one way or another, it'll be over soon.

But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.

Me and God have a great relationship, but we're both seeing other people.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

My fat never made me less money.

I've never been a feminist.