I am an actress first, a singer second.
GRACE JONESI don’t like people who hide things.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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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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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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
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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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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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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’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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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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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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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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