Grace Jones Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.”

“I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.”

“I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.”

“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.”

“I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.”

“Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Use, don't abuse.”