Dolly Parton

“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.”

“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”

“I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.”

“I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.”

“We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.”

“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.”

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

“I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.”

“I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.”

“I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.”

“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!”

“When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.”

“I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.”

“They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.”