You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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 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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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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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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