black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

Grace Jones

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
GRACE JONES

Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
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.’
GRACE JONES

Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
I don’t like people who hide things.
GRACE JONES

Hide Lying People
When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
GRACE JONES

Appearance Man Modeling Myself Start
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
GRACE JONES

Children Myself Positive Thinking
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.
GRACE JONES

Childhood Myself Performance Scare Stage Trauma
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
GRACE JONES

Appearance Face Myself Skin
I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
GRACE JONES

Channeling Man Way Woman Yourself
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.
GRACE JONES

Known Live Myself Week
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.
GRACE JONES

Difference Forget Performance Person Serious Time Yourself
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.
GRACE JONES

Body Enough Feeling Live Sway Worse Yourself
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
GRACE JONES

Animal Goodness Yourself
I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
GRACE JONES

Day Energy Morning Sleep
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
GRACE JONES

Depression Rock Yourself
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
GRACE JONES

Myself Talent Thinking
That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
GRACE JONES

Coffee Talk Wine

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Grace Jones Quotes