Actress Halle Berry spoke out on Monday about her role as Catwoman in the 2003 movie of the same name that wound up being—and there’s no way around this—a box-office bomb. For Berry, coming off of 2002’s Oscar-winning performance in Monster’s Ball, it could have put a stop to her Hollywood dreams. As it turns out, though, Berry has zero regrets about taking the movie on: For her, the movie taught her a valuable lesson about listening to her intuition—and, well, it also made her a ton of money.

She accepted the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communication Monday evening and opened up about Catwoman in her acceptance speech.

“Everybody around me said, ‘Girl, don’t do it. It’s going to be the death of you. It’s going to end your career.’ But guess what I did? I followed my intuition and I did a movie called Catwoman and it bombed miserably,” Berry said. “While it failed to most people, it wasn’t a failure for me because I met so many interesting people that I wouldn’t have met otherwise, I learned two forms of martial arts and I learned not what to do.”

She also added that she made “a shit-load of money that changed my life.”

And then Berry dropped some incredible advice on the audience: “I say that to say, Following your intuition doesn’t always mean you’re going to be successful or win the prize, but it means you’re always going to learn the exact lesson or get the exact accolades or the exact check that you’re supposed to get for yourself. Never compare that to anyone else.”

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