Jennifer Beals Quotes

I'm at my best when I'm talking about relationships, talking about women, talking about situations and stories.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.

People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

After my second marriage failed... I said, 'You know, could I have a relationship with a man? A loving relationship with a man that would involve intimacy?' For a while, before I did get into a relationship, I saw, for a few years, either women or men. And I found that I could be attracted to both.

Men want to make women happy.