The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think,… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
![“I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.” quote by Dolly Parton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/116/dolly-parton-366_acting_i-think-music-and-acting-they-are-connec_35206.jpg)
