Halle Berry Quotes

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

I don't think I have the right to give someone advice when I don't know them.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.