{"id":672514,"date":"2026-09-04T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672514\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:21:15","slug":"jennifer-aniston-reveals-dolly-partons-words-of-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672514\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston reveals Dolly Parton’s words of advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Aniston paid tribute to Dolly Parton this week, and revealed the nuggets of wisdom shared by the late country singer that she tries to live by.<\/p>\n

While hosting a Q&A in New York City with her boyfriend, Jim Curtis, Jennifer couldn\u2019t help but stop to honour the legacy of her “dear friend” – joking that everyone in the world was suffering from \u201cpost Parton\u201d blues. Despite the sadness, Jennifer thought of Dolly when she was asked what\u2019s the best piece of advice she could give.<\/p>\n

She shared that Dolly would often say, “‘I chased a few rainbows and I caught some, I caught a few.'” The Friends star movingly added, “Go chase your dreams and go catch some rainbows. You\u2019ll catch a few. [Dolly] did that, for sure.”<\/p>\n

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Jennifer is paraphrasing one of Dolly\u2019s famous quotes that was also a song lyric from her 2014 track, Try. In the inspirational song, Dolly sings, “I’ve chased after rainbows, I’ve captured one or two. I’ve reached for the stars, I’ve even held a few\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Dolly and Jennifer became friends when they collaborated on the 2018 Netflix movie, Dumplin\u2019, which featured Dolly as an off-screen influence and inspiration for the title character. The movie even featured existing and original music from the singer.<\/p>\n

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True to Dolly\u2019s nature, Jennifer revealed at the time just how generous she had been during the making of the film. \u201cShe was only supposed to write one song and she ended up writing six,\u201d she said. \u201cThe movie wouldn\u2019t have been made if she said no.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two would even record together for the film, and Jennifer earned Dolly\u2019s respect. \u201cShe did good, though, I have to say,\u201d Dolly told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “She was a little nervous at the start, but she walked in there like she does everything else, like a real pro.”<\/p>\n

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For Jennifer\u2019s part, she recalled that she \u201cburst into tears\u201d after getting the chance to sing with Dolly, a hero of hers. In fact, Jennifer once had a dog named after Dolly.<\/p>\n

When she appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show back in 2018, Jennifer shared, \u201cI loved her since I was little. You know, sang into a hairbrush singing Dolly Parton. I told her that I named my dog after her.<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cDolly and I were doing press and somehow that came up. And then\u2026 she was like, \u2018I know when she said I named my dog Dolly after you, I don\u2019t know how I felt about that.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh, God, I\u2019ve insulted her.'”<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Dolly couldn\u2019t have been too insulted. The pair remained friendly and reportedly gave Jennifer her blessing for her planned remake of Dolly\u2019s movie, 9 to 5. It\u2019s reported that Jennifer has been working on a reimagining of the 1980 comedy film which co-starred Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Dolly said of the remake, \u201cI love Jennifer. I think it\u2019ll be a wonderful thing\u2026 I do wish her the best, because the script I read, I thought, was really good and a new and different take that really brings the office up to date the way that people live now\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston paid tribute to Dolly Parton this week, and revealed the nuggets of wisdom shared by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":["post-672514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117213691336256877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}