Jennifer Beals quotes - page 3

All of us have an artist inside us. It's part of our DNA as human beings. We have all witnessed the power of the arts to deeply connect people, to open our minds to new ideas and express our innermost sacred selves. The imagination isn't just simply reserved for children. The imagination can be, for all of us, a very real gateway to joy, understanding, liberation and peace. (Jennifer Beals)
It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear. View quote
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Now, at this time, I think there's too many people who feel comfortable with hate speech. It's become too commonplace, and acceptable. And it's not okay, and we've got to change that...I think we also have to take responsibility for the words that come out of our mouths, because we are all connected. We are all part of one community. View quote
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One of the things that the show did for me was bring up so many women's issues and the notion that homophobia is a form of misogyny. The women's community and the gay community are interrelated, whether you're straight or not. It also made me realize how connected women are everywhere. Women who are gay are repressed in similar ways as women who are straight. View quote
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[Regarding Flashdance-related fame] It was very clear to me that it's not real. It's not real...I was never the little girl who thought I wanted to be famous. My first real quest that I can recall...other than wanting to be a jockey...was trying to figure out who or what God was. That really drove me for quite some time...I had a notion that there was this mystery that I didn't really know anything about, and I wanted to try to figure it out.... so fame was not my driving force. View quote
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What's shocking is to see six-year-old children jump roping in the street at 2:00 a. m.-that's shocking-a block away from drug dealers. Just to see that the gap in the circle is education, in my mind, primarily for young women, because it's the young women that are raising the kids and that's where the circle, I think, perpetuates itself. View quote
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The more affluent areas, by and large, are afforded these big, beautiful, spectacular buildings, and then the poorer neighborhoods are just disintegrating. And there's this imbalance, obviously, of power and resources. View quote
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With more mainstream filmmaking, the problem is who's making the decisions. They're not artists. The key creative decisions are being made by lawyers and accountants-that's a very precarious situation. It's precarious because it really does matter. Icons are being made and manufactured. People say it's just a movie-but it's not. View quote
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What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. View quote
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When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are. View quote
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There is no wasted effort. There is no wasted effort. It will all add to the path. It will all add to the journey. Somehow. You just can't even imagine how it will. But you just need to do things fully to the best of your ability. And you go towards the thing that you love. What you love to do. (Jennifer Beals)
[On the importance of positive representations of LGBT people in the media] You know, I don't think it's helpful to anyone to... for example, say that every LGBT person is wonderful and perfect and without flaw, and lets all ring the bells to perfection. I think it's much more helpful to tell the story as truthfully as you can, and with all of its complications, because that's also when people recognize themselves, and that's when people who are not part of the LGBT community will recognize themselves within that character. And then [they] hopefully empathize and maybe there'll be some kind of shift. View quote
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I believe that people want to turn from fear towards hope, from divisiveness towards unity, from intolerance to an understanding that we all belong to one great community. Within all the chaos, within the despair, the not knowing, the anger, the anxiety, there is always the possibility for change. There is a seed of hope. And I'm not talking about a pie-in-the-sky kind of hope, but a kind of hope that calls on each and every one of us to stand up and be counted - a kind of hope that calls on each and every one of us to give the very best of ourselves - not just for our own benefit, but for the benefit of all of us, collectively. View quote
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[Speaking about the US military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy] The health of a democracy is directly dependent on hearing the voices of its individual citizens. Silence is destructive. What could mar our safety more than this restrictive policy that requires its citizens' silence? What could mar our safety more than this restrictive policy that quietly attacks its own citizens' very selfhood out of fear? What keeps us truly unsafe as a country on a day-to-day basis is our inability to look inside and experience ourselves as a multitude, as a complexity. And as sure as I'm standing here, things are not always black or white, but sometimes they can be both. View quote
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My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. View quote
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Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know? View quote
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I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically. View quote
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I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it. View quote
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By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person. View quote
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I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud. View quote
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I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day? (Jennifer Beals)
I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing. View quote
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Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. View quote
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I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships. View quote
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It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around. View quote
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