Jennifer Beals Quotes

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

Turn your scars into stars.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

You put me in here a cub, but I will come out a roaring lion.