Rita Ora

I’m often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

I don’t know what it feels like not to have a great family support system – I was lucky to have that.

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don’t know it yet.

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

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

I don’t have a sound bite for everything.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says ‘I don’t give a royal s**t.’

But it’s been 114 years. It’s like for over a century, America’s computer’s been saying, An update to your country is available and we’ve been clicking Remind me later again and again and again.

[on acting] I just enjoyed it as soon as I started doing it. It fulfilled something in me, and I’m so lucky that I found it.

I like you baby, just not more than my work right now

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I’m being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

I’ve been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I’m working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I’ve done so far.

I’m keeping the pixie. I hope I inspire people… it’s really cool to have short hair.

The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.

Parisian men make love all day and have no time to work; American men work all day and have no time for love.

This Velvet Mafia thing is just another homophobic, nasty kind of thing that jealous queens make up.

I don’t want to be stuck in the ’70s or the ’80s. I just keep moving. That’s my intention. That’s my stimulus. Otherwise, I’d be at home doing the garden.

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I’m drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it