Quotes from Dolly Parton

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago, ' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

I love traveling all over the world but it's true: there's nothing like home.

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

'Wrecking Ball' is a great song.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.

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

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

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

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.