36 Halle Berry Quotes

Halle Berry quotes

1. 'It's probably the first time the tabloids got my life right!'

2. ''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.'

3. 'I wish all men were like dogs.'

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

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

6. '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.'

7. '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.'

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

9. 'Secretly part of me has always wanted to try cocaine, but I just couldn't imagine sniffing anything up my nose. It seems like that would hurt.'

10. '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.'

11. '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.'

12. '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.'

1. I am a hopeless romantic. And I wont stop till I get it right. I dont think Im unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think its a really hard thing to do. And Im not willing to stay somewhere where I am really not happy. And I am not willing to pretend I am for the kids sake or so that I dont have to go through another public humiliation.

2. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. 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. And I'm not willing to stay somewhere where I am really not happy. And I am not willing to pretend I am for the kid's sake or so that I don't have to go through another public humiliation.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. I want to officially state that I am an emotional retard. I am so emotional...as soon as I saw the crowds of people and friends here, I started to cry.

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

9. 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.'

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

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

18. 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.

19. 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.

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

21. 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.

22. 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.

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

24. 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.