Halle Berry Quotes

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

I wasn't like most girls.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

Being different gives the world color.

The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They're the people who make the industry tick.

I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!

I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

There are infinite combinations that people can experience, because no two people are alike, and no two people's identities should be expected to be alike. I mean, we see it in fashion: one size does not fit all. And I think it's, you know, completely ridiculous that we've expected people's identities to be one size fits all.

I like being a chameleon and doing things that are just so different that people will be like, 'Oh, that's him?'

The best way to be original is to be yourself.