Quotes by Dolly Parton

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin’ on, I then got the money, and gone.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.