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.'

I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

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

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

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

I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.