Top 284 Quotes by Dolly Parton

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

There are some loony people in this world!

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.