Top 90 Halle Berry Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.”

— Halle Berry

53. “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

54. “My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.”

— Halle Berry

55. “I’m not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don’t have the right body. When I want to get dressed up.”

— Halle Berry

56. “My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.”

— Halle Berry

57. “I’ve always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.”

— Halle Berry

58. “After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.”

— Halle Berry

59. “A person’s self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.”

— Halle Berry

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “To make lips look naturally pink, I put on red lipstick, wipe it off, and then apply clear gloss.”

— Halle Berry

65. “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

66. “It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.”

— Halle Berry

67. “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.”

— Halle Berry

68. “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

69. “When I’m rested, I’m at my best.”

— Halle Berry

70. “I’ve become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.”

— Halle Berry

71. “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!”

— Halle Berry

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.”

— Halle Berry

79. “I’ve always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood.”

— Halle Berry

80. “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

81. “I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.”

— Halle Berry

82. “I’m not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.”

— Halle Berry

83. “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

84. “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

85. “And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that’s what is required of the industry today.”

— Halle Berry

86. “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

87. “Women slave for their hair! It’s all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.”

— Halle Berry

88. “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

89. “I’ve never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.”

— Halle Berry

90. “Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.”

— Halle Berry

91. “If you really want to be competitive in today’s market you have to be in movies that make money.”

— Halle Berry

92. “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

93. “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