“It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the...” — Halle Berry Quote

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

“What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'”

“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.”

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”

“Music comes from a whole different place. It tells the story of your life and it's probably the closest thing I have to a religion.”

“My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.”