Here are a few of the "Dollyisms" that lace an interview with Dolly Parton:
- "I'm no actress, but the character (in `Straight Talk') is enough different from me that it's not just a Dolly Parton documentary."- "I don't like to give advice - but I like to talk."
- "My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things."
- "I love men. Men are my weakness and my strength."
- "I look like a woman, but I think like a man."
- "I listen to my old records and I think, how did I ever get on the radio?"
- On tabloid stories about her. "It could be worse, they could tell the truth."
- On the conservative clothing she wears in "Straight Talk." "I couldn't wait to get over that movie so I could dress trashy again."
- On her penchant for flamboyant wigs. "Someone once asked me, `How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, `I don't know, I'm never there.' "
- On a song in the film called "Fish Out of Water," which someone described as her first rap song. "Unwrapped is what I think it is."
- On why she did the TV movie "Wild Texas Wind,' in which she played an abused wife. "I didn't want to just do `Dolly Goes Home,' `Dolly With Her Family,' `Dolly's Back in the Smokies Again.' I thought that would be interesting for my fans, something different. I figured, let somebody slap the snot out of me. I thought they might like that."
- On her appearance on the "Arsenio Hall Show," during which Hall probed with some rather personal questions. "I don't really mind. (When you become a celebrity) you are public property, you know." - Chris Hicks