I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
GRACE JONESMost 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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 like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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