You go into these movies always with the best intention, but then sometimes you get on the set and then you realize' What was I high when I agreed to do this ?'. Halle Berry More Quotes by Halle Berry More Quotes From Halle Berry When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup. Halle Berry beauty-pageantpageantmakeup I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup. Halle Berry makeupless-is-moreused But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us. Halle Berry journeyfallthinking Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up. Halle Berry sizeslavehair I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl. Halle Berry fashiongirlbody I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me. Halle Berry life-changingteenagerdream Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it. Halle Berry empoweringsmartuse 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. Halle Berry hard-timesjourneybelieve I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore. Halle Berry short-hairhairfeels I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore. Halle Berry sexualityno-excusesexcuse I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had. Halle Berry editorsawardsschool I'm sorry everybody who worked on this movie, but I kind of knew it wasn't going to be the greatest cinematic experience for the people. Halle Berry top-news That win almost 15 years ago was iconic, it was important to me, but I had the knowing in the moment that it was bigger than me. I believed that in that moment. Halle Berry entertainment We have to stop wanting to look like that decade before. Halle Berry entertainment I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. Halle Berry stopi-amloveromantic 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. Halle Berry womanalonewalkpeople 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. Halle Berry myselfmelovelife In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt! Halle Berry buttwomensexystrong
