Halle Berry Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

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

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.

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.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

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.

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.

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.'

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

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 woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

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. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.

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

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

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

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.

Women of color aren't often named, so to be there and not only (to) represent myself -- but ... all of us in a way ... it feels great,

So, it will be a really good night for people of color, as well as everybody else, but especially for us,

I'm a really good gymnast. I can do splits and back handsprings. I'm always asked to do it on a talk show. And every time I go they say will you do it. I say yeah, but I'm always wearing high heels or a short dress. And I keep saying one time I'm going to go on and wear jeans and sneakers so I can do back flips.

I eat everything -- red meat, lots of vegetables -- and I drink Diet Coke. But no water, and that's really bad. I've learned not to eat a huge portion just because it's on my plate.

I think that every three months or so I get to meet a new set of characters. It's just a joy. Work feels like a party.

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

I will definitely adopt. And I probably will adopt even if it does happen naturally.

I will never say never, but at this time in my life NUDITY IS OUT.

I'm so glad I did Swordfish because I would never have been able to take a role like Monster's Ball had I not got through those inhibitions that were holding me back.

to be an actress of color who can make a difference and go down a path that no woman has gone before.

When my husband wears this kind of oil, I'm like a puppy.

Dorothy wanted to be treated like her white counterparts, ... and she suffered for it.

I understand now that 'special love' exists between two people when the passions lie beneath the surface.

There's art and there's commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It's important to do the little movies just for the love of the art. But it's those big movies that take you around the world and make you globally famous.

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film.

I've worn this cape for two movies now and I never flew.

Oh, my God. I'm sorry. This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. ... It's for every nameless, faceless woman of color who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

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

They can't take this away from me, ... It's got my name on it.

Any time you get to laugh at yourself, that's a memorable moment, and that's what I got to do today.

the choices I make in my career to the choices Meg Ryan has.

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.

I knew nothing, I came in cold. I'm going to have to go back and kick him in the butt.