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Halle Berry [1968-0] American

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Actress

Halle Maria Berry is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball, which made her the only woman of color to win a Best Actress Academy Award to date, as of 2016.

Romantic, Marriage, Relationship, Alone, Beauty, Dad, Diet, Fear, Sad, Travel, Trust

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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.		101
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.	Dad	102
Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.		103
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.	Fear	104
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.		105
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.		106
Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.		107
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.	Beauty	108
I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.		109
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.		110
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.	Romantic	111
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.	Marriage, Relationship, Romantic	112
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.	Alone, Marriage, Relationship	113
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.		114
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.		115
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.		116
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.'		117
I think it's always best to be who you are.		118
Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.		119
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.		120
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.		121
The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.		122
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.		123
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.		124
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.		125
I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.		126
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.		201
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.		202
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.	Travel	203
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.		204
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.		205
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.		206
Beauty is not just physical.		207
After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?		208
By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.		209
Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!		210
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.'		211
I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.		212
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.	Romantic	213
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.		214
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.		215
You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.		216
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.	Trust	217
A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.		218
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. It gave me a way to show who I was without being angry or violent.		219
In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!		220
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.		221
There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.		222
I'm not sad at all about turning 40.	Sad	223
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.		224
I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.		225
I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.		226
I wish all men were like dogs.		301
While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.		302
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.		303
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.		304
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.		305
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.		306
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.	Diet	307
I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.		308
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.		309
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.		310
Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.		311
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.		312
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.		313
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.		314
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!		315
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.		316
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.		317
I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.		318
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.		319
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.		320
I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.		321
I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.		322
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.		323
I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.		324
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.		325
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.		326
My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.		401
I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.		402

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