101+ Halle Berry Quotes On Marriage, Community And Nature

Halle Berry is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. She is known for her work in films such as Monster's Ball, Die Another Day, X-Men, and Catwoman. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball, making her the first and, to date, only woman of African American descent to win an Oscar for a leading role. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Halle Berry on love, marriage, community.

Top 10 Halle Berry Quotes

1. Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin.
2. I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.
3. I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
4. Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.
5. Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.
6. I can't imagine my life without animals. I have two dogs and three cats. Coming home and finding them all lined up at the door waiting for me has got to be one of the sweetest joys of my life.
7. My pregnancy was amazing. I was happy that whole time, I felt good, I had energy, I was like Superwoman. I wish I could feel like that for the rest of my life, that's how fantastic it was.
8. 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.
9. I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.
10. I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

Halle Berry Short Quotes

• I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.
• I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
• To make lips look naturally pink, I put on red lipstick, wipe it off, and then apply clear gloss.
• By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
• I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
• I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.
• My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.
• A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
• I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

Halle Berry Quotes About Love

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. — Halle Berry

I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different. — Halle Berry

I've always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood. — Halle Berry

Halle Berry Quotes About Beautiful

We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. — Halle Berry

As beautiful as Halle is on the outside, she's 10 times more beautiful on the inside. — Halle Berry

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

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. On her beauty pageant days — Halle Berry

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

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do. — Halle Berry

Halle Berry Quotes About Black

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 women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community. — Halle Berry

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. — Halle Berry

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me. — Halle Berry

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that. — Halle Berry

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids. — Halle Berry

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of roles. — Halle Berry

Halle Berry Famous Quotes And Sayings

I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun? — Halle Berry

I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me. — Halle Berry

When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time. — Halle Berry

I meditate and pray all the time. The faith and respect that I have in the power of God in my life is what I've used to keep myself grounded, and it has allowed me to move away from the storms that were in my life. — Halle Berry

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

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about. — Halle Berry

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

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened. — Halle Berry

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better. — Halle Berry

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. — Halle Berry

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was. — Halle Berry

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way. — Halle Berry

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

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. — Halle Berry

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

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept. — Halle Berry

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 older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like. — Halle Berry

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

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

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances. — Halle Berry

I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look. — Halle Berry

I wish all men were like dogs. — Halle Berry

After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back. — Halle Berry

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

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

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. — Halle Berry

I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar. — Halle Berry

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

Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be a great script has often turned out to be a disaster, so there's no way to know what's going to work or to pick the right thing. — Halle Berry

It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over. — Halle Berry

I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character. — Halle Berry

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

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. When you are so ready, you can't do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are ripe as could be. The eggs should become more developed the older you get, not die slowly from the day you're born. That's one thing God got wrong. — Halle Berry

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. 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. And I'm not willing to stay somewhere where I am really not happy. And I am not willing to pretend I am for the kid's sake or so that I don't have to go through another public humiliation. — Halle Berry

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

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

I didn't think it was possible at my age, honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy. — Halle Berry

I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum. — Halle Berry

In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt! — Halle Berry

When I’m rested, I’m at my best. — Halle Berry

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

I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen. — Halle Berry

Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share. — Halle Berry

Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore. — Halle Berry

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life. — Halle Berry

I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good. — Halle Berry

I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me. — Halle Berry

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

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

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role. — Halle Berry

I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all. — Halle Berry

I will not marry again. There is no need. — Halle Berry

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself. — Halle Berry

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'. — Halle Berry

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

I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity. — Halle Berry

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

I am so ready to be a mommy. I can't wait. I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, every little baby thing. — Halle Berry

In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career. — Halle Berry

When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes. — Halle Berry

My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the bushes and from behind cars and who knows where else, besieging these children just to get a photo. — Halle Berry

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say. — Halle Berry

When an opportunity comes your way, it's about making sure you're prepared to be the one who can walk through the door and deliver the goods. And I've had a lot of luck on my side and I've been prepared for that luck. — Halle Berry

I know that there is a God - the God within me that's always present and will protect me. I'm not afraid to climb any mountain, because I know that I'm protected. Even if I fall and die, I'm still protected. My faith is on that level. — Halle Berry

Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that. — Halle Berry

Life Lessons by Halle Berry

1. Halle Berry has taught us that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible. She has gone from being a beauty pageant contestant to an Academy Award-winning actress, and has proven that with the right attitude and perseverance, success can be achieved.
2. Halle Berry has also shown us that it is important to stay true to yourself and to never give up. She has faced many obstacles throughout her career, but she has always stayed true to her values and has never given up on her dreams.
3. Finally, Halle Berry has taught us that it is important to stay humble and to be grateful for what we have. She is an example of someone who has achieved great success, yet remains humble and thankful for all the opportunities she has been given.