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.'

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.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

When I’m rested, I’m at my best.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.