Dolly Parton

"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."

"A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them."

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

"Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park."

"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort."

"First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes."

"For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood."

"I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out."

"I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith."

"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."

"I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway."

"I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant."

"I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed."

"I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red."

"I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me."

"I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road."

"I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet."

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

"No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!"

"Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate."

"The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone."

"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."