Award winning actress and former fashion model Halle Berry was born August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio.

• "I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night."




• "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 women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community."




• "We didn't think of it as a sex scene. We approached it as two characters really getting what they needed. They needed that like they needed air to breathe."




• "I know that there is a God - the God within me that's always present and will protect me. I'm not afraid to climb any mountain, because I know that I'm protected. Even if I fall and die, I'm still protected. My faith is on that level."




• "We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that."




• "The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings."




• "I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession. What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on. "