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Open Image Modal“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” (credit:Archive Photos)
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Open Image Modal"My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart." (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image Modal"I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little." (credit:FilmMagic)
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Open Image Modal“People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.” (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal"Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you." (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.” (credit:Redferns)
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Open Image Modal"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen." (credit:Michael Ochs Archives)
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Open Image Modal"I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade." (credit:Getty)
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Open Image Modal"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." (credit:Redferns)
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Open Image Modal"And I was kind of sore after we’d finished filming our headlock, because she’s a big girl. Looking at us was like watching an Amazonian holding a pygmy."(Dolly Parton on a scene with Queen Latifah in Joyful Noise) (credit:Alcon)
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Open Image Modal"If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked." (credit:Hulton Archive)
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Open Image Modal"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out." (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal“I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.” (credit:FilmMagic)
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Open Image Modal“I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.” (credit:WireImag)
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Open Image Modal"I’ll be wearing my high heels, even if I’m up to my knees in mud" (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image Modal“If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.” (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal"I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!" (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.” (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal“Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.” (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal"I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke." (credit:Getty)
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Open Image Modal“I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.” (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal“They got me busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.” (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal"If I have one more face-lift I'll have a beard." (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal"I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again." (credit:Getty)
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Open Image Modal"If you want to see the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain." (credit:Getty)
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Open Image Modal"I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on." (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal"After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her." (credit:Getty)
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Open Image Modal"If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!" (credit:Getty)
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Open Image Modal"I do have large tits. Always had them. I've pushed them up, whacked them around. Why not make fun of them?" (credit:WireImage)
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Open Image Modal"I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces." (credit:Getty)
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Open Image Modal"I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids." (credit:Getty)
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Open Image Modal"It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself." (credit:Getty)