Dolly Parton Quotes And Sayings

Writing's Just As Natural To Me As Getting Up And Cooking Breakfast.

I Ain't Never Far Away From A Pencil And Paper Or A Tape Recorder.

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.

My First Job Was Singing On The Cas Walker Radio Show In Knoxville, Tennessee. I Was About 10 Years Old, And I Thought It Was Big Time.

I'm An Energy Vampire. I Just Suck Off Everybody's Energy. But I Give It Back.

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 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.

I'm Not Intimidated By How People Perceive Me.

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'm Pretty Sure In My Older Years, I'll Be Doing Old-time Flavored Folk-mountain Music.

A Lot Of Dreams Can Turn To Nightmares... If You Don't Really Work Them.

I'm Just A Friendly Person; That Runs In My Family.

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.

Everybody Has A Purpose.

I've Copyrighted 3,000 Songs.

My Biggest Extravagances Are Also Investments. I Have Several Houses In California, A House In Nashville, An Office Complex, And I Bought The Old Home Place In Tennessee. They Are Different Places For Me To Write, But I Can Turn Right Around And Sell Them.

I Look At Myself Like A Show Dog. I've Got To Keep Her Clipped And Trimmed And In Good Shape.

My Songs Are Like My Children - I Expect Them To Support Me When I'm Old.

I Thank God For My Failures. Maybe Not At The Time But After Some Reflection. I Never Feel Like A Failure Just Because Something I Tried Has Failed.

I've Been Very Fortunate.

I'm Not Trying To Be Fashionable. Never Was!

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.

I Don't Have Anything To Say About Other People's Art And Their Work.

If I'd Married Someone In Show Business, There'd Be Too Much Competition.

I Was Approached About Having My Own Network Many, Many Years Ago. There Were Some People Who Wanted To Start Up A Network, And I Didn't Want To Get That Involved In The Business Aspect Of It.

I Always Think Of Myself As A Working Girl.

I Do Believe That Any Successful Business Starts From The Top And Works Its Way Down.

We Just Seem To Have Lost All Our Morals And Principles And Values These Days.

I Have Suffered Most Of The Things I Write About - Or My Friends Have.

I Can Write A Song In About An Hour If It's A Simple Country Song.

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.

I Didn't Know Any Gay People In My Childhood.

I Always Ask God To Work Through Me And Let Me Be A Light Of Some Kind And Help In This World, So I Always Pray For That, And I Always Want To Do Good.

I Do Have A Lot Of Gays In My Family Now, But Some Will Never Come Out.

My First Phone Was Two Tin Cans Tied Together With String, And It Worked Pretty Good.

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.

That Little Miley Cyrus... She's Like A Little Elvis. The Kids Love Her Because She's Hannah Montana, But What People Don't Realize About Her Is She Is Such A Fantastic Singer And Songwriter. She Writes Songs Like She's 40 Years Old!

People Are Always Asking Me In Interviews, 'What Do You Think Of Foreign Affairs?' I Just Say, 'I've Had A Few.'

My Songs Are The Door To Every Dream I've Ever Had And Every Success I've Ever Achieved.

When I Started The Imagination Library In My Hometown, I Never Dreamed That One Day We Would Be Helping Scottish Kids.

No One Is Ever Successful At Everything That They Do.

God Has His Plans And His Reasons. Sometimes We Are Supposed To Go Through Things So That We Learn Lessons.

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.

I Think People Take Me As Seriously As I Want Them To. They Take Me As Seriously As I Take Myself - Let's Put It That Way.

I'm Very Secure About My Talents And About Who I Am.

I'm Comfortable In My Own Skin, No Matter How Far It's Stretched. Ha Ha.

There's A Scripture That Says, 'A Merry Heart Doeth Good Like Medicine.' I Think That's True, Too.

I'll Never Graduate From Collagen.

People Are Looking For Something A Little More Stable; People Are Feeling Like They Need To Get Closer To God.

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.