I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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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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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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 believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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