Dolly Parton

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

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.'

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

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

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

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

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

My fat never made me less money.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

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 am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

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

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

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

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.