Grace Jones Quotes

I could easily not be the person that people know.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

It's easy to forget who you are.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.