256 Quotes by Halle Berry

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.

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

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!

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.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

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.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

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.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.