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Jennifer Beals
63 quotes
“I’m not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in autostraddle.com (5 March 2010).
“[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 (born 1963) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on matthewsplace.com (October 2009).
“When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Better Nutrition magazine (March 2004).
“[What her career looks like] "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 (born 1963) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chicago Tribune (21 March 2011)
“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.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Jian Gomeshi, CBC Radio Q (16 February 2011).
“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.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with TV Drama Watch (4 February 2011).
“[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.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on matthewsplace.com (October 2009).
“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.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at LGBT Community Center's 25th Anniversary and 11th Annual Women's Event, New York, New York (1 November 2009).
“I’ve had my letters from klansmen, believe me...I could always navigate it. I don’t know if that’s just because I was conditioned to navigate it. But I always could. It just made me determined to work even more...Every single thing is narrative. Our understanding of things is a narrative. It’s the narrative of who’s in power. It’s the narrative of the person in the bodega down the street. What is the story that I’m telling myself? Am I telling myself the story that my teachers told me that I was? Am I telling myself the story that my parents told me that I was? How do I come to the narrative that serves my highest good?”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in The Guardian (7 Feb 2022)
“[On what she learned from working on The L Word] I think that I learned the most clearly was how connected we all are. And that (does air quotation marks) "gay issues" are also women's issues because homophobia is a form of misogyny…And I feel much more motivated to speak out when I see something that I don't like or that just smells wrong…I see how all women are connected. You know, and that we are all either repressed or we repress ourselves in certain ways, and that's truly codified within the culture. And that I'm not so far removed from that woman in the Congo who's terrified to go out into the woods to look for firewood.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New York Times Talks Panel (20 April 2009).
“The fact is we are all, no matter where we live, surrounded constantly by stories, whether they are literal, oral or visual...the benign story I'm really growing tired of is the "humorous" story of the blonde woman who is either injured or humiliated all in order to sell beer. Not funny. I am tired of these stories. I am angered by these stories. There are other stories far more wondrous — stories of women claiming and reclaiming power, stories of rage and resistance and indefatigable courage, and stories of women and some men — reaching across great divides and into the most treacherous places on Earth where turmoil reigns and violence against women is unchecked, taking the hands of those women, helping to lift them up and leading them toward safety and sanctuary and self-determination.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at private fundraiser for V-Day (March 2008).
“[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.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Acceptance speech for The Center Orange County's "Torch Bearer" Award, Santa Ana, California (5 June 2010).
“I was doing press for the show and they were going to show a clip from The L Word that included a love scene of sorts between me and another character, and she had the audacity to say, 'If there are any children in the room, you might want to ask them to leave.' And my mind was blown open and I said to her, ‘If it had been a heterosexual love scene, would you have asked the same question?’ I asked her on air, because I thought, it’s important to ask -- it contextualizes the import of the show." My feelings were hurt and it just spoke to me of what the gay and lesbian community has to deal with on a day-to-day basis in terms of popular media.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beals and Obama article (3 March 2009).