- Grace Jones
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
- Grace Jones
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.
- Grace Jones
Use, don't abuse.
- Grace Jones
The fact that I get in there and perform during this political time, and have a great time doing it helps. Gays are my best audience.
- Grace Jones
Our motto is creating opportunities, changing lives,
- Grace Jones
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
- Grace Jones
As a model one is forced to spend a lot of time in front of the mirror and I just started to freak out, like I was going on the other side of the mirror. So I moved every mirror out of my house when I stopped modeling.
- Grace Jones
Survival is my primary instinct. I’ll do anything. 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’.
- Grace Jones
I perform all the time, but my fans have to track me down. I don't do press. I go underground.
- Grace Jones
I get bored. I provoke things to happen without even realizing it. I just follow my instincts. I don't think about it, really.
- Grace Jones
I think i'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.
- Grace Jones
I wasn't born this way. One creates oneself. I believe whatever I dream. Whatever I dream, I want t do.
- Grace Jones
I've always been a rebel. I never do things the way they're supposed to be done. Either I go in the opposite direction or I create a new direction for myself, regardless of what the rules are or what society says.
- Grace Jones
If you're out there you're vulnerable. People prefer to disappear in life, to repress their personality. That's not living. It's dying. I see them al over the place, the walking dead.
- Grace Jones