Jennifer Beals
I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience on-set and within the scene. Because later, when the film comes out or the show comes out it's the editor's realm or the director's realm. But that moment on set, that's that electricity between me and another actor, and that's really what excites me.Collection: Editors
I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.Collection: Taken
My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.Collection: Role Models
I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion.Collection: Fashion
It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.Collection: People
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.Collection: Thinking
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.Collection: Thinking
[Her message to women and girls of the world] You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power - not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.Collection: Girl
I think for me, when I'm looking at a script I really try to consider what experience am I embarking upon, because for me it's really about the experience.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Cancer
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.Collection: Hate
For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.Collection: 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.Collection: Choices
[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.Collection: Sex
[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.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Thinking