Halle Berry

On 2/26/2005 she showed up in person to accept the Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her role as La femme-chat (2004) and became the first actress to do so. Accepting the award, Berry smiled and said, "Thank you, and I hope to God I never see you guys again.".
Saved from choking on a fig by Pierce Brosnan during shooting of the love scene on Cuba for Meurs un autre jour (2002).
During filming of Gothika (2003) in Montreal in May of 2003, Robert Downey Jr. was supposed to grab her arm and twist but he twisted too hard and broke it . Production was halted for eight weeks.
Well known for "living" her roles, she refused to bathe for two weeks in preparation for a role as a crack addict in Jungle Fever (1991).
Is the second "Bond girl" to win an Academy Award. The first was Kim Basinger.

On Dorothy Dandridge: ...You have to find a way to be sad on every day, in every scene, in every moment. And always try to hide the sadness. And (then) you'll get the essence of who she was.
During her Oscar acceptance speech: This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It's for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett Smith, Angela Bassett, Vivica A. Fox... and it's for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance, because the door tonight has been opened.
On choosing both serious and popcorn-movie roles: There's art and there's commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It's important to do the little movies just for the love of the art. But it's those big movies that take you around the world and make you globally famous.
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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.