Halle Berry
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.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Great
Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.Collection: Alone
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.Collection: Dad
Beauty is not just physical.Collection: Beauty
I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Beauty
I'm not sad at all about turning 40.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Good
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Diet
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.Collection: Romantic
I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.
I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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 not done with love, but I refuse to settle.
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.
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.
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.
Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.
You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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.
I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
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.'
My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.
I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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.
By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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.
The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.
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 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 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.
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?
I think it's always best to be who you are.
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.
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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.
I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.