Jennifer Beals Quotes

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.

If you ain't nothing when you get money and fame, you're just going to be more nothing. If you don't stand for nothing, when you get money and fame, you ain't suddenly fin to stand for nothing! You're just fin to be richer and more famous - standing for nothing!

Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

You need to know your values.

At the end of the day, I represent myself first and foremost, and I'm not going to ever purposely try and misrepresent myself.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

It isn't about who is 'for' or 'against' you, it's about who you are for.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

Anything can be achieved with a strong enough why!

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to guide yourself back home when you lose your way. That's it. Everything else is your burning passion, your inspired mission, your job, your love-fueled hobby, etc. Those things are powerful and essential, but they're not your purpose. Your purpose is much bigger than that.

I didn't try to be something I wasn't.

I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I know what I believe in. I know my morals and I know what I have to offer.

What we do flows from who we are.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

Never let your fame outshine your truth.

This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

That which fires youth, generally rings true.