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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.

Halle Berry

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Halle Berry
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 14
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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.
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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.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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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.
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My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.
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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!
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I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.
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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.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.
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