I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change. Jennifer Beals More Quotes by Jennifer Beals More Quotes From Jennifer Beals The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different. Jennifer Beals different way My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all. Jennifer Beals role-models bars roles [Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different... From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy. Jennifer Beals men sex thinking For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out. Jennifer Beals code chicago boxing At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events. Jennifer Beals events moments choices Love is the most dangerous thing in the world. Jennifer Beals danger love-is world 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. Jennifer Beals play character thinking Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react. Jennifer Beals loneliness sports men [On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation. Jennifer Beals self fall thinking 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 men lying sex 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. Jennifer Beals lost-friendship use directors We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever. Jennifer Beals hate forever character Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more. Jennifer Beals welcome way thinking 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. Jennifer Beals independent differences creative [On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world. Jennifer Beals yoga class world By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person. Jennifer Beals ability genocide way Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on. Jennifer Beals film-and-television storytelling thinking It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way. Jennifer Beals get-better keys thinking One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal. Jennifer Beals selling-products lovely cancer 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. Jennifer Beals nice fighting men
