Top 284 Quotes by Dolly Parton

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

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.