Berry: "I'm just going to live my life and be who I am."

Berry: "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."

Berry: "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."

Berry: "There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach."

Berry: "By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity."

Berry: "I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that."

Berry: "I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do."

Berry: "Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

Berry: "I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen."

Berry: "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."

Berry: "I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin."

Berry: "I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself."

Berry: "I think it's always best to be who you are."

Berry: "If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life."

Berry: "I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage."

Berry: "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."

Berry: "Beauty is not just physical."

Berry: "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."

Berry: "I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife."

Berry: "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."

Berry: "The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it."