Best 133 quotes of Halle Berry on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.