Berry Quotes

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(2005 Academy Awards acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ray (2004/I)) I guess we got to do it again. "Oh, ah!" Yeah, you`re ready. That`s for Ray Charles. Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. I got so many people to thank tonight. First I want to start it out with Taylor Hackford. Taylor, you took a chance, man. I mean that love for Ray Charles was deep, down in the earth. It`s cracked open. And it`s spilling. And everybody`s drowning in this love. I thank you for taking a chance on this film. And thank you for waiting 15 years to get me to do it. I want to thank you. I want to thank Crusader. I want to thank my agents. I want to thank Rick Kurtzman. I want to thank Kim Hodges. I want to thank `Steve Smooke`. I want to thank my managers, Jaime King (Jaime Rucker King) and Marcus King. Let`s live this African-American dream. It`s beautiful. I`m glad I`m with you. I ain`t never leaving you. I`m glad I`m with you. I got a chance to meet a whole lot of people, experiencing this. And other people I want to thank, I want to thank my sister. Four feet, eleven inches of nothing but pure love. I want to thank my daughter for telling me just before I got up here, "If you don`t win, dad, you`re still good. I`m just ... I see Oprah (Oprah Winfrey) and I see Halle (Halle Berry). I just want to say your names. I want to talk to you later. Both of you. Because Oprah got -- allowed me to meet somebody by the name of Sidney Poitier. And, yes, Sidney Poitier said, "I saw you once. And I looked in your eyes and there was a connection." And he says, "I give to you responsibility." So, I`m taking that responsibility tonight. And, thank you, Sidney. This is probably going to be the toughest part of this speech. My daughter shares my grandmother`s name, "Marie." My grandmother`s name is Estelle Marie Talley. She`s not here tonight. And this is going to be the toughest part. But she was my first acting teacher. She told me to stand up straight. Put your shoulders back. Act like you got some sense. We would go places. And I would wild out. And she would say, "Act like you`ve been somewhere." And then when I would act the fool, she would beat me. She would whup me. And she could get an Oscar for the way she whupped me because she was great at it. And after she whipped me, she would talk to me and tell me why she whipped me. She said I want you to be a southern gentleman. She still talks to me now. Only now, she talks to me, in my dreams. And I can`t wait to go to sleep tonight because we got a lot to talk about. I love you.

- Jamie Foxx

Here is my theory in debunking photographs in magazines. You know, the paparazzi photographs. I want to spend every single night for three months going out with a different famous actress. You know, Halle Berry one night, Salma Hayek the next, and then walk on the beach holding hands with Leonardo DiCaprio. People would still buy the magazines, they`d still buy the pictures, but they would always go, `I don`t know if these guys are putting us on or not.`

- George Clooney

"Isn`t Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I`d like to be in her with. I mean, I`d like to be with her in." - At the 2002 Golden Globe Awards commenting to Melissa Rivers on Halle Berry, who just walked by.

- Ewan McGregor

"Yeah, it sounds like such a bohemian thing to do, doesn`t it? But as badly as Alabama wanted that song ("Walkin` the Country"), I thought we needed the song. I didn`t have a deal at that point, but I thought that would be one of the key songs for us. It was a perfect marriage of lyric and melody and groove that summed up what we were about. I was renting a really old house, for $400 a month, over in Berry Hill. But the money`s no good if you haven`t got a career. I can`t buy a career, and I believed in that song as a way to get my thing out there. Even if it only ended up on CMT, which is what happened, that`s good enough. I do care about money, but I`ve never done anything for the money. . . . My first thought is credibility: doing what you do and not getting swayed by whatever everyone else tells you."

- Keith Urban

As of right now, I`m still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

- Brian Austin Green

But as far as this stuff being really new, really different that`s something else again. Even the Sex Pistols were playing old Chuck Berry licks.

- Lester Bangs

It would have been great to light up and smoke cigarettes, for instance. It would have been great to have the killing a little bit more real and not wussed down. It`s all rather bland. I remember doing a sex scene with Halle (Halle Berry) - I mean frolicking in the bed - and there was director Lee Tamahori right under the sheets with us. But the way we ended up doing it was almost like the old days in Hollywood - kissing the girl but still having your feet on the floor.

- Pierce Brosnan

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It`s called Berry Hill.

- Tom Felton

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

- Eric Clapton

After Halle Berry does her films and Latifah does her films, it`s left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There just not a ton of work in film.

- Gabrielle Union

I have the Samuel Jackson mentality, of working as much as possible. I think about Halle (Berry) and (Queen) Latifah, and they are the only two black actresses that work consistently. It scares me.

- Gabrielle Union

Halle`s success has come more from blockbusters. But, yes, she is a source of inspiration. When she makes money, black actors make money.- On Halle Berry`s success

- Gabrielle Union

I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they`re quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.

- Buck Owens

Cary Grant was another gentleman who I saw around the lot. Wallace Berry had a reputation for being gruff but he was very nice to me.

- Dwayne Hickman

We`re gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we`ve got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry`s piano player.

- James Young

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

- Wayne Kramer

I hope she didn`t suffer. It`s hard to take in. I have hope and tremendous faith. I think that`s what gets you through life...through tragedies is when you have faith. -- MB commenting on the plane crash death of her sister Berry during the 9/11 attacks.

- Marisa Berenson

She was just this angel that landed on this planet for a short amount of time. - On her late sister Berry Berenson

- Marisa Berenson

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

- Wilson Pickett

I mean, I haven`t been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn`t pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

- Warren Zevon

Mr. Berry is the weakest of the three cases as far as the death penalty, ... He does not have a racist background that the other two have. He doesn`t have the same criminal history that these other two have. But I think he may have been more of an active participant than the other two.

- James Gray

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we`re famous all over the world.

- Martha Reeves

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

- Martha Reeves

I know it`s popular to say this because she`s the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she`s a damn good actress too.

- Paul Kane

Any native species '” a stand of milkweed '” Porcelain-berry comes along and kills it. It`s like kudzu in the South. You can`t just have one plant taking over an area '” period.

- Anne Hutchinson

There is no substitute for human blood, and with such a large demand, Berry employees are proud to come together to support such an important cause and help save lives in the community.

- Armando Siqueiros

For some reason, these people ... think that`s the next great berry, the next great fruit of harvest in our state. Maybe we should call them bugerberries and include everything from muscadines to blueberries and everything else.

- Austin Davis