Halle Berry Covers 'T' Magazine!

Halle Berry is gorgeous on the cover of T, The New York Times Style Magazine‘s women’s fashion cover.

Here’s what the 46-year-old Cloud Atlas actress had to share with the mag:

On keeping herself grounded: “I always felt like the underdog. Behind the eight ball. I learned not to be too high on the hog. Even that night I won the Oscar, I had a fundamental knowing, it was just a moment in time. Driving home that night, back to my house, I felt like Cinderella. I said, ‘When this night is over, I’m going back to who I was.’ And I did.”

On perceiving her image growing up: “My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn’t matter as much as how I would be perceived” – as beautiful but also as a black woman in a world in which the images of beautiful, successful black women were notably absent.”

Tom Hanks, on Halle’s acting ability: “She’s got this way of looking at the camera. Very deep and still. There’s a calm about her, and that comes through in her performances. She’s a peaceful pond on a late summer’s day. No maintenance or hurly-burly.”

For more from Halle, visit tmagazine.com!

Also pictured inside: Halle, in a Peace Love World tank, and her fiance Olivier Martinez, in Levi‘s, out separately on Thursday (October 18) in Los Angeles.