Quotes from Halle Berry

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

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

I wish all men were like dogs.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

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.

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

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

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Beauty is not just physical.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

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

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.