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
I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished. — 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
If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself -… — 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
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
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
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of… — 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
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
People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that… — 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
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
All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of… — 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
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
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 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 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
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 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'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'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I… — 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 got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on 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
I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of… — 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'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do.… — 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
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
It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you. — Dolly Parton Copy Share
No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by — Dolly Parton Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. — Dolly Parton Copy Share
There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you… — Dolly Parton Copy Share
![“We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.” quote by Dolly Parton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/dolly-parton-366_giving_we-get-along-real-well-actually-with-my_414578.jpg)
