Jennifer Beals
Jennifer Beals
Jennifer Bealsis an American actress and a former teen model. She is best known for her role as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 romantic drama film Flashdance, and starred as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. Beals earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth19 December 1963
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I'm working on a studio film right now where sometimes we do three takes. That's incredible! It's like boom, boom, boom. You're out. Oh, OK.
The dailies that I saw were the sequence where they are in the street and he is trying to teach him how to look at a woman basically. I liked it.
I think that is one of the things that makes watching him kind of fascinating, that we are watching everybody, this person that we assume is a demon.
Originally, I got a phone call from Campbell Scott saying that he was doing this movie and that there was this part that he wanted me to play in it.
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.
For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.
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.
Women are so often segregated to their sexuality, and how they appear. In fact, there's a lot of talk, even now, I think in most jobs this is true...people will say, when a woman rises to power, they ask, 'who did she sleep with?' You know, it couldn't possibly be about her acumen, it couldn't possibly be about her intelligence. It's got to be about her body, because that's how women get ahead.
Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.
I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.
I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different...quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.
[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love and that it is a civil right.
The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.
Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.