Halle Berry
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Biography
Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. She began her career as a model and beauty contestant becoming Miss Ohio USA in 1986, first runner-up in Miss USA 1986 and placing sixth in Miss World 1986.
"Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Beauty is not just physical."
"I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that."
"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."
"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."
"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money."
"And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today."
"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."
"I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right."
"I'm not sad at all about turning 40."
"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 got to do the other side.'"
"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 marriage for myself."
"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."
"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."
"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 of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community."