99 Quotes by Jennifer Beals

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

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’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.

I’m not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

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.

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.

Even when I think about the fact that energy can become matter and matter can become energy, I have a very strong feeling that there’s something afterward.

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.

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.