My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

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.'

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

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.

I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

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.

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.

Beauty is not just physical.

I wish all men were like dogs.

When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

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

Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

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

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

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

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.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

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