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Halle Berry

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Halle Berry is a renowned American actress, born on August 14, 1966. She is celebrated for her exceptional performances in film and television, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first African American woman to receive the honor.

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“It's a privilege to age.”

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“Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.”

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“2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.”

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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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“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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“It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.”

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“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.”

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“When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.”

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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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“The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.”

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“I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.”

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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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“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 used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.”

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“I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.”

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“I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.”

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“I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?”

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“I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.”

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“For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.”

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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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“As beautiful as Halle is on the outside, she's 10 times more beautiful on the inside.”

Beautiful Beautiful Inside

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“I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.”

People Thinking Body Feet Sexy Mum Sexiest

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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 am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.”

Feels Self Hair Like Me Best Self Short Hair

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“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.”

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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.”

Should Easier Harder Pregnant

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“Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.”

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“I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.”

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“In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.”

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“I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.”

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“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.”

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“First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.”

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“When I’m rested, I’m at my best.”

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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 learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.”

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“I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.”

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“I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.”

Feels Behinds Hair Short Hair

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“When you have short hair, there's just a feeling of here I am. What you see is what you get. And there's a confidence that comes with wearing short hair and I like the way that makes me feel.”

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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 love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.”

Giving Different Character Grows Chance Give Me Give Me A Chance

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“I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.”

Comfortable Excuse Sexuality No Excuses

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“Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.”

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“I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.”

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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.”

Feels I Can Actors Answers Comfortable Being True Movie Freak Because I Can True To Myself

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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've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way you're going to deliver your best performance is when you have other good actors on the set supporting you and being very present for you even when the camera is not on them.”

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“Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.”

People Thinking Father Roles Growing Up Growing Models Role Models Good Role Models

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“I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.”

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“Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.”

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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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Author:Halle Berry

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Born: August 14, 1966
Known for: Actress
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