Quotes By Halle Berry

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 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.'

Beauty is not just physical.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.