Dolly Parton Quotes

I have worked ever since I was 13.

I've been working since I was five!

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

I've worked since I was in second grade.

I've been working since I was 13 completely straight without a break.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

I was working from a very early age.

I've been working since I was 7.

I spent my whole life working hard.

I am working since I was seven.

Many might feel that I am very traditional in my approach, but I feel that the most important thing is to have the blessings of your parents. That's very important. Plus, be ready for consistent hard work, despite the inevitable ups and downs in this field.

My parents worked very hard for everything that they got. Their parents worked hard. It's just something that is passed down to you, and whatever you want to accomplish, you have to work hard to get it, and that's always been that mentality that my family has, and I think that's something that was passed on to me.

My dad worked all day. He would get up at five in the morning and didn't stop working until 10 at night, every day the same.

I seen my dad work for like 16, 17 hours a day.

When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I'd get up early and work every hour I could stay awake.