Rita Ora

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

It’s nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

I’m often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words.

I think I’ve always been fine on stage – though I get nervous beforehand. But once I’m on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

When I’m playing a character, I use the American accent. But when I go back to England, I just glide right back into Englishness immediately. Every actor uses a dialect coach. Every actor, and if they say they don’t, they’re lying. Everybody does, yeah. You don’t want to worry about it. You have someone listening out to check that you’re not straying.

I did Jonathon Ross last year and he said ‘do people do impressions of David Brent?’ and I went ‘well, they can’t really because he’s such a normal bloke’. Then, after the show, me and Ross are walking through the car park and this bloke jumps out and goes ‘der-ner-ner-ner-ner’, does the David Brent dance and runs away. Jonathon Ross was in hysterics: ‘all that shit you came out with and then some bloke jumps out and runs away’. But on the whole it doesn’t really happen.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity!

The crime rates among immigrants once [in the United States] are in relatively tiny digits, which is something Donald Trump should frankly understand given that he has ten of them attached to his miniscule wrists.

Remember-the only place men want depth in their women is in her décolletage.

I have to turn down roles I really want to do because I can’t travel. But that’s okay, because you make peace with things in your mind.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I’m very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I’ve sold millions of records with my clothes on.

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

There are so many different definitions of ‘pretty.’ it’s so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring- nobody cares anymore.

If you’ve got to take it. Take it easy. Never hurry to a date. Eat your supper; let ’em wait.

I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.

I knew I could always work harder and be better and show I’m more prepared. I had a whole science to, like, how you have to arrive 17 minutes early to something. If you’re 20 minutes early, that means you’re too eager, but 17 minutes gives you time to, like, settle, sign in, use the ladies’ room, have some water, and get comfortable.

Yeezus was extremely purposeful. And what came from Yeezus: Paparazzi are nicer to me. The entire fashion industry is nicer to me.

Boys love being bossed around by me tho…

There’s no substitute to being successful on an actual chart.