Born Saturday 19 January 1946
Professions: Actress, Author, Musician, Songwriter, Writer
Nationality: American
I love story songs because I've always loved books.
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
I think that I'm perfect.
I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.
Every day I pray about all I do.
My grandpa was a preacher.
The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
I'm a workin' girl.
I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
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 was always a junk food person, still am.
I can't do nothing just a little.
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 a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.
People get a kick out of my stupidity.
I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
I write for myself things that I've gone through.
Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.
