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 JONESI came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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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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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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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 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.
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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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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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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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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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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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