Jennifer Beals Quotes

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

I have a lot of self-hatred and a lot of self-anger and a lot of things that I need to let go of.

I didn't like who I was. I spent a lot of my life regretting who I was, which is a sad thing to say.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

I have no desire to look at myself.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.