Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
GRACE JONESYou can’t expect your children to be perfect.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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 never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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When 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.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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