The film, about women whose close friendship helps them through grief, became Dolly\u2019s most memorable screen role.<\/p>\n
It also starred Shirley MacLaine<\/a>, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah<\/a>, Sally Field and Olympia Dukakis. <\/p>\n Only Dolly and Daryl Hannah did not win Oscars for it. But Dolly, the warm-hearted salon owner, made audiences laugh with a string of one-liners. <\/p>\n Here are some of the best, according to imdb.com:<\/p>\n \u201cLaughter through tears is my favorite emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s so much static electricity in this room, I pick up everything but boys and money.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHoney, time marches on and eventually you realise it is marchin\u2019 across your face.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSmile! It increases your face value.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLouie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t like her. I don’t trust anyone who does their own hair. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s natural.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI’m just screamin\u2019 at my husband; I can do that any time!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, honey, God don\u2019t care which church you go, long as you show up!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen it comes to pain and suffering, she’s right up there with Elizabeth Taylor.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGot me, maybe she was praying for Marshall and Drew and Bell. My she was praying for us cause we was gossipin\u2019. Maybe she was praying because the elastic is shot in her pantyhose. Who knows \u2013 she prays at the drop of a hat these days.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh sweetheart don’t. Please don’t cry or I will too. I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.\u201d<\/p>\n IMDB also reports that after a poor take, director Herbert Ross reprimanded Dolly and asked her whether she could act. She replied: \u201cNo, but it\u2019s your job to make me look like I can.\u201d<\/p>\n When Julia Roberts was promoting the film, she reportedly told Oprah Winfrey how hot it was while filming in Louisiana but that Dolly never complained.<\/p>\n She urged her co-star, who had on woollen clothes and a wig, to have a grumble about the heat.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cI remember we were sitting on the porch, and she said to me, \u2018When I was a little girl, I wanted to be famous, and I wanted to be rich, and now I\u2019m both of these things, I\u2019m not going to complain about it\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n On hearing the news of Dolly Parton\u2019s death, Roberts said: \u201cDolly was a magical and joyous human. I hold knowing her as a treasure in my life. The sun has dimmed today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u2018I](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-25-at-4-58-49-PM.png\")
\u2018I don’t trust anyone who does their own hair,\u2019 Dolly said in the film (Tri-Star Pictures)<\/p>\n