I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy.… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world,… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through… — 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 want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to… — 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