Latest Halle Berry Quotes from Interviews

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• Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

  Halle Berry

  Hair, Size, Slave

  "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Struggle, Thinking, Problem

  "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

• I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  Halle Berry

  Girl, Fashion, Body

  "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Dream, Life Changing, Teenager

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

• I've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way you're going to deliver your best performance is when you have other good actors on the set supporting you and being very present for you even when the camera is not on them.

  Halle Berry

  Awards, Acting, Actors

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

• Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

  Halle Berry

  Smart, Empowering, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.

  Halle Berry

  Taken, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

  Halle Berry

  No Excuses, Excuse, Sexuality

  "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

• I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.

  Halle Berry

  Character, Giving, Different

  "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

• I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.

  Halle Berry

  School, Awards, Editors

  "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

• When you have short hair, there's just a feeling of here I am. What you see is what you get. And there's a confidence that comes with wearing short hair and I like the way that makes me feel.

  Halle Berry

  Hair, Here I Am, Feelings

  "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

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

  Halle Berry

  Hair, Short Hair, Feels

  "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

• I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

  Halle Berry

  Makeup, Less Is More, Used

  "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

• I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.

  Halle Berry

  Makeup, Age, Looks

  Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

• When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

  Halle Berry

  Makeup, Pageant, Beauty Pageant

  "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Class, Guy, Gentleman

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview Cloud Atlas". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 18, 2017.

• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Fall, Journey, Thinking

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview, Cloud Atlas". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

  Halle Berry

  Believe, Journey, Hard Times

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview Cloud Atlas". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 18, 2017.

• I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.

  Halle Berry

  Lonely, Artist, Night

  "Comic-Con: Halle Berry On Shattering Stereotypes, ‘Extant’ & ‘Storm’ Movie". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 8, 2015.

• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Winning, Risk, Losing

  "Comic-Con: Halle Berry On Shattering Stereotypes, ‘Extant’ & ‘Storm’ Movie". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 8, 2015.