Halle Berry Quotes
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
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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.'
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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.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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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.
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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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.
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
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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.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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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.
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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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. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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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.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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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.
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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.
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I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.