Grace Jones Quotes

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

I look to many different women for inspiration but try to make things my own.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

I feel like I have a unique voice that's true and authentic, and we need more of that. If I can inspire more of that, I need to do that in as many places as possible.

There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?