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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.

Halle Berry

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Halle Berry
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 14
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.
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When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.
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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.
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I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.
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I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.
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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.
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It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.
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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.
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After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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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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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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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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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.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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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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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.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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