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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.

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Halle Berry
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 14
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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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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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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.
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I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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