Janet Jackson Quotes
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Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.
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You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.
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I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
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I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
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I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
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Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.
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In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.
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I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.
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People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
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I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
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It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
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You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.
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Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.
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MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended - including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.
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I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.
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When I do get married again, I'm just going to take time off.
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I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.
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I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!
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Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.
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I'll meet a guy now, and the next thing I know they'll be sweating and their hands will be shaking. And I feel so bad - I don't even know what to say to them. Then there are other guys who come on too strong, and they're just all over you. The nice ones are the ones who are in-between - the ones who aren't scared and who aren't all over you.