I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
GRACE JONESI only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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 believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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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.
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I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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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 mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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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.
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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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 like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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