Quotes from Dolly Parton
I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.
- Dolly Parton
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
- Dolly Parton
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
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
- Dolly Parton
I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
- Dolly Parton
I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
- Dolly Parton
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
- Dolly Parton
I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.
- Dolly Parton
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.
- Dolly Parton
Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.
- Dolly Parton
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.
- Dolly Parton
There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.
- Dolly Parton