Halle Berry Quotes - Page 5

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'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.

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'.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I will not marry again. There is no need.

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

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 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.

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