Quotes by Halle Berry

“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.”

“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 ...”

“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 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.”

“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 franch...”

“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 ...”

“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 alway...”

“Beauty is not just physical.”

“I'm not sad at all about turning 40.”

“I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“Sexiness is a state of mind -- a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.”

“When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“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 th...”

“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...”

“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.”