Top 189 Quotes & Sayings by Rita Ora

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British musician Rita Ora.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Rita Ora

Rita Sahatçiu Ora is a British singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence in February 2012 when she featured on DJ Fresh's single, "Hot Right Now", which reached number one in the UK. Her debut studio album, Ora, released in August 2012, debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. The album contained the UK number-one singles, "R.I.P." and "How We Do (Party)". Ora was the artist with the most number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart in 2012, with three singles reaching the top position.

Kerastase and Bed Head have really good products.
I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.
I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.
I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that. — © Rita Ora
I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.
I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
I am committed to glamour.
I've always been into looking different.
I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.
I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.
Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.
I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
I'm just very good at pretending.
I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde. — © Rita Ora
I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.
The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.
Women love an honest man.
My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.
You have to take care of your body.
It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.
I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
A music video is so different to doing a movie.
I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words.
When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
I love getting dressed up and glamorous for the red carpet. It makes me feel powerful and sexy!
Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.
I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.
I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.
I used to wait in line for Jordans. That's how much of a freak I was.
The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.
I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.
You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.
I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.
When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.
One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.
Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.
I have 20 wigs at home that I play with.
Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.
Music expresses - you express yourself with music. — © Rita Ora
Music expresses - you express yourself with music.
I admire Rihanna.
Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.
I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'
To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward.
I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that.
Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.
Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.
I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. — © Rita Ora
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.
The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!
I have had young fascinations but never love.
I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
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.
For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.
Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.
When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.
I don't think I could do a reality show, no.
The public's not stupid.
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