Halle Berry Quotes:

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

Topics: Laughing, Way, Obstacles, Laugh At Yourself

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

source: - "Comic-Con: Halle Berry On Shattering Stereotypes, ‘Extant’ & ‘Storm’ Movie". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 8, 2015.

Topics: Winning, Risk, Losing, You Can Win

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

Topics: Relationship, Men, Pie, Cherry Pie, Self Glorification

I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.

Topics: Lonely, Artist, Night, Lonely Places

I can't imagine my life without animals. I have two dogs and three cats. Coming home and finding them all lined up at the door waiting for me has got to be one of the sweetest joys of my life.

Topics: Dog, Cat, Home, Dog Lover, Two Dogs

Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

source: - "It's Official: Halle Berry Is Still The Sexiest Woman Alive At 42!" by Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. Ocotber 8, 2008.

Topics: Love You, Loving Yourself, Mind, Sexiness, State Of Mind

I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

Topics: Night, Bed, Three, Three Ways

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

Topics: Feelings, Trying, Hardship, Relieved

Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: White, People, Community, Blackness

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

Topics: Love, Inspiring, Happiness, African American Love

We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

Topics: Beauty, Today, Way, Saddened, Fountain Of Youth

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

Topics: Night, Clothes, Space, Storage Space

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

Topics: Underdog, Relate, Always Fighting

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

Topics: Healthy, Lifestyle, Ends

Beauty is not just physical.

Topics: Physical Attraction

When an opportunity comes your way, it's about making sure you're prepared to be the one who can walk through the door and deliver the goods. And I've had a lot of luck on my side and I've been prepared for that luck.

Topics: Opportunity, Doors, Luck

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. When you are so ready, you can't do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are ripe as could be. The eggs should become more developed the older you get, not die slowly from the day you're born. That's one thing God got wrong.

Topics: Eggs, Easier, Born

To make lips look naturally pink, I put on red lipstick, wipe it off, and then apply clear gloss.

Topics: Red Lipstick, Looks, Wipe

I wish all men were like dogs.

Topics: Dog, Men, Wish

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

Topics: Growing Up, Smart, White

I meditate and pray all the time. The faith and respect that I have in the power of God in my life is what I've used to keep myself grounded, and it has allowed me to move away from the storms that were in my life.

Topics: Moving, Godly, Storm

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Topics: Father, Men, Void

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

Topics: Abandoned, Whole Life

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

Topics: Children, Self Esteem, Raised

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Topics: Mother, Black And White, Thinking

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

Topics: Beautiful, Actresses, Flattering

I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

Topics: Hate, Married

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

Topics: First Love, Kissing, Men, First Date

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

Topics: People, Belief, Relentless

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.

Topics: Meaningful, Careers, Rivers, Stepping Stones, Modelling

My pregnancy was amazing. I was happy that whole time, I felt good, I had energy, I was like Superwoman. I wish I could feel like that for the rest of my life, that's how fantastic it was.

Topics: Mom, Pregnancy, Wish, Superwoman, Super Woman

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Topics: Knowing, Firsts, Steps

I know that there is a God - the God within me that's always present and will protect me. I'm not afraid to climb any mountain, because I know that I'm protected. Even if I fall and die, I'm still protected. My faith is on that level.

Topics: Fall, Godly, Mountain

Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.

Topics: Real, Motherhood, Perspective

I am my best self when I have super-short hair. That's when I feel most like me and most confident.

Topics: Hair, Self, Short Hair, Best Self

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

Topics: Struggle, Book, Reading, Questioning Why

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

Topics: Light, Age, Want

I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.

Topics: Sexy, Thinking, Feet

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

Topics: Kids, Light, Hair, All Black, Straight Hair

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

Topics: Racism, Black, Faces, Black Racism

Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

Topics: Hollywood, Example, Growing

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of roles.

Topics: Fighting, Black, Different

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

Topics: Today, Commerce

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

Topics: Christmas, Mom, Santa, Horrific

I didn't think it was possible at my age honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy

Topics: Pregnancy, Thinking, Age

My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the bushes and from behind cars and who knows where else, besieging these children just to get a photo.

Topics: Daughter, Children, School

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

Topics: Reality, Matter, Faces, Toughness

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

Topics: Self Esteem, Looks, Persons, Physical Appearance, Confident Woman

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.

Topics: Easier, Should, Harder

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

Topics: Inspirational, Mother, Self

When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

Topics: Fun, Thinking, Laughing, Exotic Places, Bond Movie

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

Topics: Character, Wells

I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

Topics: Exercise, Work Out, Sticks, Diabetes

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

Topics: Cheerleading, Editors, Class, Class President, Prove Myself

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

Topics: Criticism, Scrutiny, Subjects

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin.

Topics: Inspirational, Beauty, Skins, Facial, Take Care Of Yourself

Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.

Topics: Beauty, Live Your Life, Beauty Of Life

I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

Topics: Responsibility, Care, Responsible

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

source: - "Halle Berry: Halle's Hollywood". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. August 20, 2010.

Topics: Who I Am, Living My Life

I think it's always best to be who you are.

source: - "Now I'm really at the party" by Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2002.

Topics: Thinking, Be Who You Are, Who You Are

When you have short hair, there's just a feeling of here I am. What you see is what you get. And there's a confidence that comes with wearing short hair and I like the way that makes me feel.

source: - "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

Topics: Hair, Here I Am, Feelings, Short Hair

When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.

source: - "Halle Berry Is No Stranger to Hard Work". Interview with Steven Rea, www.ocregister.com. April 14, 2007.

Topics: Children, Growing Up, Race, Mixed Race

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mother, Kids, Way

If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.

Topics: Real, Giving, Work Out, Give It Your All

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

Topics: Beautiful, Heartache, Trouble, Meaninglessness

I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.

source: - Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

Topics: Makeup, Age, Looks

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

source: - "Monster Succes". The Age, March 15, 2002.

Topics: Character, Firsts, Walks

I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.

source: - "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

Topics: Character, Giving, Different, Give Me A Chance

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

Topics: Romantic, Want, Hopeless, Committed Relationship, Traditional Marriage

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

Topics: Self Esteem, People, Needs

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

source: - "The Seductress". Herald Sun, March 26, 2005.

Topics: Sex, Race, Black, Hamper

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

source: - "Female Bonding - Hot on the Heels of Her Academy-award Winning Turn in 'Monster's Ball,' Halle Berry Shares the Screen With 007". Chicago Sun-Times, November 17, 2002.

Topics: Color, Way, Path, Different Paths, Cookie Cutters

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

source: - Halle Berry's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 24, 2002.

Topics: Doors, Tonight, Oscars, Faceless, Academy Awards

I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

Topics: Thinking, Skins

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Luck

I've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way you're going to deliver your best performance is when you have other good actors on the set supporting you and being very present for you even when the camera is not on them.

source: - "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

Topics: Awards, Acting, Actors

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Men, Wife, Needs

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Crowns

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.

Topics: Tattoo, Darkness, Wish

Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Smart, Empowering, Use

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

source: - "Reporter, Temp, Online Seductress - Berry Revels In Film's Layered Role". Detroit Free Press, April 08, 2007.

Topics: Facts, Comfort, Chance

As beautiful as Halle is on the outside, she's 10 times more beautiful on the inside.

Topics: Beautiful, Beautiful Inside

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Topics: Mother, Careers, Important

Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!

source: - "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

Topics: Baby, Aftermath, Having A Baby

Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.

source: - "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

Topics: Growing Up, Father, Thinking, Good Role Models

I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.

source: - "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

Topics: Doritos, Loser, Eating, Biggest Loser

When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

source: - "Berry Almost Chose Bylines Over Marquees". Interview with Geoff Pevere, www.thestar.com. April 13, 2007.

Topics: Running, Real, School, Real Change, Business School

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

Topics: Fall, Winning, Expectations

What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

Topics: Stars, Play, Black, High Profile

After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.

Topics: Struggle, Reading, Divorce

I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?

source: - "Berry's Tough Break - Actress Stretches to Physical Max in 'Gothika'". The Knoxville News-Sentinel, November 21, 2003.

Topics: Fun, Character, Thinking, Physicality

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

Topics: School, Tenacity, Left

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

source: - "Halle Berry Is Back on the Market for Mr. Right" by Alison Schwartz, people.com. August 12, 2010.

Topics: Romantic, Hopeless Romantic, Hopeless

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Thinking, Hair, Who I Am

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

source: - "From the Grave to the Cradle". Western Mail, February 01, 2008.

Topics: Fighting, Years, Roles

I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Taken, Artist, Thinking, Thespians, Trotting

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen

Topics: Not Afraid, Portraying, Screens

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

source: - "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

Topics: No Excuses, Excuse, Sexuality

I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.

source: - "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

Topics: Hair, Short Hair, Feels

I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.

source: - "Berry Dares to Leave Drama Queen Behind Her". The Courier-Post, April 15, 2007.

Topics: Fun, Careers, Challenges, Different Things

It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

source: - "Yummy Working Mummy". Sunday Herald Sun, October 21, 2007.

Topics: Life Changing, Taken, Ultrasounds

I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity.

source: - "Report: Halle Berry Says She Takes Control in Bed". www.foxnews.com. October 20, 2008.

Topics: Waiting, Favors, I've Learned

I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.

source: - "Halle, Them's the Breaks". The Advertiser, April 01, 200.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Careers

I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.

source: - "Anything to Do With Taking Off Your Clothes Comes My Way". Evening Standard, May 22, 2006.

Topics: Sexy, Thinking, Winning, Super Sexy

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Topics: Art, Thinking, Done, Art Films, Smart Person

I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.

source: - "Halle Berry: 'Catwoman for the New Century' Is in Control". The Seattle Times, July 23, 2004.

Topics: Morning, Mean, Eye, Pimples

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

Topics: Thinking, People, Trying

I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.

source: - "Halle Berry Finally Finds a Scary Movie She Can Embrace in 'Gothika'". Alameda Times-Star, November 21, 2003.

Topics: Screens

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

Topics: Names, Hollywood, Fame, Boulevard

I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.

source: - "Blazing a Trail With Halle's Comet". The Northern Echo, March 27, 2004.

Topics: Nice, Character, Feel Good, Bubble Bath, And At The End Of The Day

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

Topics: Rain, California, Southern, Southern California

I am so ready to be a mommy. I can't wait. I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, every little baby thing.

Topics: Inspirational, Baby, Waiting

Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.

Topics: Jobs, Special, Looks

Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

Topics: Mother, Important, Right Now

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Topics: Turning 40

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

Topics: Mother, Ifs

My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.

Topics: Smell, Partners, Frenchmen

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

Topics: Secret, Nobody Knows, Knows

In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.

Topics: Careers, Scary, Monsters

Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be a great script has often turned out to be a disaster, so there's no way to know what's going to work or to pick the right thing.

Topics: Looks, Paper, Way

When I’m rested, I’m at my best.

source: - "How Much Beauty Sleep Do You Get?", people.com. April 25, 2011.

Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.

Topics: Movie, Actors, Answers, True To Myself

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

Topics: Tiny, Contribution, Humans

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.

source: - "Halle Berry Is Back on the Market for Mr. Right" by Alison Schwartz, people.com. August 12, 2010.

Topics: Done, Settling, Refuse, Done With Love

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

Topics: Girl, Moving, Panties, Big Girl

Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

Topics: Real, White, People

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

source: - "Halle Berry talks about fame, filming of 'Gothika'". Interview with Lana K. Silson-Combs, web.kitsapsun.com. November 21, 2003.

Topics: Want, Today, Making Money

I will not marry again. There is no need.

Topics: Marriage, Needs

I've always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood.

Topics: Fashion, Dressing Up, Hollywood

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

source: - "Halle Berry Is InStyle's November Cover Girl!". www.instyle.com. Oct 16, 2012.

Topics: Thinking, Should Have, Careers

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Topics: Stupid, Thinking, Dumb

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Topics: Real, Privacy, Accepting, Downers

If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

Topics: Unique, Thinking, Race

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

source: - "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

Topics: Thinking, Levels, Honest

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Topics: Character, Self, People

I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

Topics: Exercise, Balance, Moderation

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

Topics: Thinking, Way, Slippery Slope, Plastic Surgery

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

Topics: Mother, Would Be, World, Bloodline

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

source: - "Pick of the Crop". The Courier Mail, February 23, 2002.

Topics: Mother, Hard Work, Answers

First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.

source: - "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview Cloud Atlas". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 18, 2017.

Topics: Class, Guy, Gentleman, Not Pretty

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

source: - "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

Topics: Struggle, Thinking, Problem, Where You Are In Life

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

source: - "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

Topics: Hair, Size, Slave

But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us.

source: - "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview, Cloud Atlas". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

Topics: Fall, Journey, Thinking

I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.

source: - "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

Topics: Dream, Life Changing, Teenager

When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

source: - "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

Topics: Makeup, Pageant, Beauty Pageant, Playing Around

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

source: - "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

Topics: Makeup, Less Is More, Used

I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

source: - "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

Topics: Girl, Fashion, Body

I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.

source: - "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

Topics: School, Awards, Editors

I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

source: - "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview Cloud Atlas". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 18, 2017.

Topics: Believe, Journey, Hard Times