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 believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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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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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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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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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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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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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.
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