Halle Berry

Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball, which made her the only woman of color to win a Best Actress Academy Award to date, as of 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 August 1966
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
closest hard people self separate
It very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
believe journey hard-times
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.
mother hard-work answers
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'.
feelings trying hardship
I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.
good hard role woman women
A good role for a woman is hard to come by - be she black, white, or sky-blue pink.
beneath exists lie passions people understand
I understand now that 'special love' exists between two people when the passions lie beneath the surface.
dorothy suffered treated white
Dorothy wanted to be treated like her white counterparts, ... and she suffered for it.
ball glad holding role
I'm so glad I did Swordfish because I would never have been able to take a role like Monster's Ball had I not got through those inhibitions that were holding me back.
diet drink eat huge learned lots portion red vegetables
I eat everything -- red meat, lots of vegetables -- and I drink Diet Coke. But no water, and that's really bad. I've learned not to eat a huge portion just because it's on my plate.
everybody good night people
So, it will be a really good night for people of color, as well as everybody else, but especially for us,
asked good heels high jeans saying short sneakers splits talk time wearing
I'm a really good gymnast. I can do splits and back handsprings. I'm always asked to do it on a talk show. And every time I go they say will you do it. I say yeah, but I'm always wearing high heels or a short dress. And I keep saying one time I'm going to go on and wear jeans and sneakers so I can do back flips.
husband wears
When my husband wears this kind of oil, I'm like a puppy.
alone blackness early identify people reason state walk white
Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
express finding goes great life love outlet perfect time
In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.