Grace Jones Quotes

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

I don't even think my voice is really good.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

I don't know if vocally I am so great.

I'm different. I don't speak perfect American. I do have a lilt of an Indian accent. I thought, 'Maybe the world's not okay with what I bring, being Indian.'

I'm never the best singer in the world.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading.

I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

I'm not the best singer - like, I know I'm not Celine Dion.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

I've always been very shy at auditioning; I'm not so great at it.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

When I went into high school, I don't know why - because I've been performing since I was little - but I think it was just the pressure of being somewhere so different, and I already stood out because I had an accent, and everyone always wanted you to talk, that I kind of shied away from singing a bit.