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
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'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.
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.
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.
The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.
Compassion takes imagination.
[About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.
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.
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.