Quotes from Dolly Parton

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

My life has been very full.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

I have a life outside the arenas.

No, I can't do rap music!

I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.

I'll never graduate from collagen.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.