Dolly Parton

“Because I’ve always tried to stay true to me. And always, when people ask me for advice, that’s kind of what I tell them.”

“There are some people just born beautiful, and then if they add more stuff, they're just more beautiful. But then there are people, like me, that you just try to make the most of what you got,”

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose,”

“My hair, I used to try to tease it to make it all it was, and with the bleach and all that, I thought, ‘Well, I’m gonna start wearing wigs,’”

“I'm not tall. I'm never going to be like a supermodel, so I like to wear my high heels.”

“To thine own self be true.”

“We just dream and think, what do we want? We don't want things that’s just going to last a season or two…we want things to be lasting.”

“It just does my heart good to see that Dollywood has done so well. And after 40 years, it just gets better and better and better,”

“I would love to just close the park down, just bring my family and friends and have a big old party,”

“it just brought so many more tourists in, and other people started building other businesses and hotels and all that. There were some things here, but not near like it was after Dollywood opened.”

“People in this area are just great people, period. They're just good people. And then you put them on a park to welcome guests, you feel that. You feel that they really mean it when they say, ‘Well, welcome (to Dollywood)’,”

“You want every experience they have to be a memory worth repeating.”

“I loved bright colors, and I still do. Through the years, I just wore what I felt matched my personality.”

“There’s a whole lot of meaning in that phrase,”

“We love and appreciate our visitors. They're the ones that's going to tell other people and they're the ones going to come back,”

“I'm just proud to be part of this whole community. And Dollywood is a shining star, certainly to me, but evidently to a lot of other people, too,”

“Some of the things I'd want to experience – I don't do the rides – but I would just like to look at everything. I'd like to taste some of the foods,”

“We have a great, great team and we have a lot of dreamers, a lot of doers,”

“I'm just happy to be part of that growth.”

“I have a Broadway musical, hotel and a new book coming soon called 'Star of the Show.' There's so much going on that it doesn't feel like, 'Oh, Jesus God, I'm turning 80,'”

“Women told him, ‘Lee, that truck makes your eyes look so blue,’ so he always drove a blue one.”

“He said, ‘You can’t wear your eye make-up at night!’”

“I was a colorful kid in a lot of ways,”