Halle Berry

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever. ”

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

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

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts. ”

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother. ”

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting. ”

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before! ”

I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. ”

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. ”

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.' ”