I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
GRACE JONESWhen I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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I think I’m doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what’s wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that’s living, or rather it should.
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I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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There will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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