Quote

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.

Halle Berry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Halle Berry
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 14
Actor
Actress
Beauty Pageant Contestant
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Model
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Cleveland
Ohio
Halle Maria Berry
Maria Halle Berry
Always
Shouldn
Sex
Race
Known
Woman
Often
Black
Hamper
Felt
Judged

More quotes by Halle Berry

Image
During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.
Halle Berry
Image
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
Image
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.
Halle Berry
Image
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.
Halle Berry
Image
Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
Halle Berry
Image
But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us.
Halle Berry
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
Halle Berry
Image
I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.
Halle Berry
Image
I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.
Halle Berry
Image
After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.
Halle Berry
Image
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.
Halle Berry
Image
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.'
Halle Berry
Image
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
Image
I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.
Halle Berry
Image
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.
Halle Berry
Image
Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
Halle Berry
Image
I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.
Halle Berry
Image
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