Quotes from Dolly Parton

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I will never retire unless I have to.

lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I don't kiss nobody's butt.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.