256 Quotes by Halle Berry

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.

Dorothy wanted to be treated like her white counterparts, ... and she suffered for it.

I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

I understand now that 'special love' exists between two people when the passions lie beneath the surface.

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.

There's art and there's commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It's important to do the little movies just for the love of the art. But it's those big movies that take you around the world and make you globally famous.

Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

I can't imagine my life without animals. I have two dogs and three cats. Coming home and finding them all lined up at the door waiting for me has got to be one of the sweetest joys of my life.