When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
GRACE JONESI’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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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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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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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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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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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