Jennifer Beals Quotes
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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.
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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.
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For some people, they may categorize it as 'gay love'. And for me, I simply see it as love. And there’s no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.
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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.
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On boxing For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love - love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.
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There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn’t even exist depending on whom you ask.
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Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.
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On service Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.
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Compassion takes imagination.
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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.
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I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
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…The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties.
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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.
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I’m not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.
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Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
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Every set is a man's world. Even on 'The L Word,' the crew was primarily men. The whole world is a man's world, unless you're in a nunnery. And even that is colored by what you're allowed, what doctrine you're allowed to practice.
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The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.
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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.