Dolly Parton People Quotations

God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.

What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!

People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything.

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

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

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

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.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

People will use you as long as you let them.

I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

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.'

People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

There are some loony people in this world!

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

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.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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 and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

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'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for.

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.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

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.

It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.

Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

There's a lot of women now with a whole lot of style but they are not necessarily song stylists. Some of their style is a lot like me and a lot of people sound a lot alike - you can't tell them apart.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts...

I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

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.

That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

You can't really make people be any different than what they are.