My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
GRACE JONESThis is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
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I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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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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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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’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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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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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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 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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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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