256 Quotes by Halle Berry

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

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

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

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.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

Beauty is not just physical.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.