On Jan. 19 Tennessee’s Dolly Parton’s is 75 years young! To celebrate, we’re sharing five of her funniest and most famous quotes. Happy birthday, Dolly!
1. ‘It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!’
— An oft-used quote, as in a Vanity Fair article
2. About how many wigs she has: ‘I don’t know, I’ve got better things to do than count them. But I wear one every day of the week, so probably 365.’
— From a 1984 interview with Interview Magazine (conducted by Andy Warhol)
3. ‘I like all that frilly stuff. Like I’ve always said, it’s a good thing I was a girl, or I’d definitely have been a drag queen. Most definitely.’
— From a 1999 interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
4. On her secrets to a successful marriage: ‘I stay gone… He’s a good guy; we know each other so well. I know every line in his face, and he knows every hair in my wig.’
— From a 2014 interview with Today Show
5. ‘I really wish y’all could have seen the look on my lawyer’s face 24 years ago when I told him I wanted to start a theme park and call it Dollywood. He thought I’d already taken the train to Crazywood.’
— From her 2009 University of Tennessee, Knoxville commencement speech