256 Quotes by Halle Berry

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

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'.