Quotes By Halle Berry

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 wish all men were like dogs.

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

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

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

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.

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.'

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.

Beauty is not just physical.

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

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.

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

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

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.