Dolly Parton explains why she was better suited to play a wh0re than a secretary:
"Parton: 'The Best Little Wh0rehouse in Texas' (1982) was not fun. I loved Burt Reynolds and Jim Nabors and all those people, but at that particular time I was ill, and coming from a Broadway play, we already had everything against us.
Interviewer: You got great reviews.
Parton: I was happy with the success of it; it was just a hard one to do.
(...)
Interviewer: You don’t look it [only five feet tall].
Parton: I walk tall, I got a tall attitude. But I’m just a little bitty person. When people see me in airports the stop me and say, “Gee, I thought you were a big person.” When I was doing “Wh0rehouse” was when I got so sick. It was right after that diet that I gained so much more back.
That was my second film, and it was so close to my personality as far as me getting to say what I wanted to say, dress the way that I like to dress, that I was real comfortable in the part. Like '9 to 5' (1980), I always joke about playing a secretary. That was good, but that was not really my true nature.
Interviewer: You were great in that.
Parton: I make a better wh0re than a secretary."
(Dolly Parton's interview with Andy Warhol & Maura Moynihan, Interview Magazine, 2012)