I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.
I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ’em up myself.
You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
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.
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 sing as an actress. Whatever I’m singing about, I just become the story.
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.
I just don’t have time to get old!
There’s a scripture that says, ‘A merry heart doeth good like medicine.’ I think that’s true, too.
There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.
People are always asking me in interviews, ‘What do you think of foreign affairs?’ I just say, ‘I’ve had a few.’
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.
I like to think I’ve been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I’m just going about my work and doing what I do best. I’m a very professional ‘Me.’
When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.
When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‘God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!’
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’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
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 never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.
There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.