“You don’t have to look like this, you’re very beautiful, you don’t have to wear the blonde wigs, you don’t have to wear the extreme clothes, right,” Barbara said.
“It’s certainly a choice, I don’t like to be like everybody else,” she said at the time. “I’ve often made the statement: ‘I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable, that’s the easiest thing in the world to do.’ Show business is a money-making joke and I’ve always liked telling jokes.”
And she doesn’t care what people think about her style decisions. “I know they make fun of me, but actually all these years people have thought the joke was on me, but it’s actually on the public. I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I’m sure of my love for life and that sort of thing,” Dolly said.
“I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am,” she proudly added. “So, I can afford to piddle around and do-diddle around with makeup and clothes and stuff because I am secure with myself.” You go, Dolly!
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