Sharon Stone Quotes & Sayings

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with. — Sharon Stone

I wear Aveda Energizing oil. I am big into aromatherapy. — Sharon Stone

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be. — Sharon Stone

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so. — Sharon Stone

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul. — Sharon Stone

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me. — Sharon Stone

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers. — Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere. — Sharon Stone

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. — Sharon Stone

We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word? — Sharon Stone

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear. — Sharon Stone

I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak. — Sharon Stone

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery. — Sharon Stone

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt. — Sharon Stone

I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs. — Sharon Stone

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder. — Sharon Stone

A lot of actresses will just go, "I'm 35." And I thought, " I'm not doing that." I like being 40. — Sharon Stone

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman. — Sharon Stone

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that. — Sharon Stone

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention. — Sharon Stone

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean. — Sharon Stone

The worse that could happen has already happened to me. — Sharon Stone

I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true. — Sharon Stone

I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me. — Sharon Stone

I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process. — Sharon Stone

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania. — Sharon Stone

I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me! — Sharon Stone

I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far. — Sharon Stone

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids. — Sharon Stone

I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it. — Sharon Stone

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence. — Sharon Stone

I like porterhouse steak, rib-eyes and New York strip. This works for me because I have very low cholesterol and low blood pressure. It's not good for everyone; you have to talk to your doctor about that. I also eat fish and cheese. I like clean food prepared as simply as possible. — Sharon Stone

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe. — Sharon Stone

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense. — Sharon Stone

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do ... — Sharon Stone

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness. — Sharon Stone

You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you. — Sharon Stone

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person. — Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up. — Sharon Stone

I like to be treated as a lady. — Sharon Stone

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue. — Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then. — Sharon Stone

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody. — Sharon Stone

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt. — Sharon Stone

My father has always been supportive of my individuality. — Sharon Stone

I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat. — Sharon Stone

I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. — Sharon Stone

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. — Sharon Stone

I once did a Sprite commercial where I had to come out of the train station, jump out of a turnstile, jump on the side of a moving train. I had to run down the top of this moving train while it was going through the mountains and valleys. It was really hairy. I got my honorary stuntwoman card for that. I was proud. — Sharon Stone

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself. — Sharon Stone

I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated. — Sharon Stone

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it. — Sharon Stone

I've done an awful lot of trying to make everybody else okay and happy. I have learned, now it would really be ok to wait for someone who wants to be there for me and partner with me and I'm really looking forward to it ... — Sharon Stone

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men. — Sharon Stone

You can only sleep your way to the middle; you have to claw your way to the top. — Sharon Stone

Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed. — Sharon Stone

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier? — Sharon Stone

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl. — Sharon Stone

It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes. — Sharon Stone

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things. — Sharon Stone

I thought when I ... made my first big
mistakes in public that that was really
going to be the end of me. My parents
cried. My friends were desperate. — Sharon Stone

I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations. — Sharon Stone

I certainly think Halle Berry's a wonderful role model. She's a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist. — Sharon Stone

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. — Sharon Stone

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen. — Sharon Stone

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work. — Sharon Stone

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth. — Sharon Stone

I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual. — Sharon Stone

I know I am known for flesh-flashing, but I am an actress, too. — Sharon Stone

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience. — Sharon Stone

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts. — Sharon Stone

You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter. — Sharon Stone

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit. — Sharon Stone

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age. — Sharon Stone

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through. — Sharon Stone

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't. — Sharon Stone

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.' — Sharon Stone

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. — Sharon Stone

As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive. — Sharon Stone

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse. — Sharon Stone

I think when you love a child, it's a different kind of love. You think, 'I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up.' And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can't love any more. — Sharon Stone

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. — Sharon Stone

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself. — Sharon Stone

I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat. — Sharon Stone

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?' — Sharon Stone

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media. — Sharon Stone

Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship. — Sharon Stone

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did. — Sharon Stone

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos. — Sharon Stone

I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver. — Sharon Stone

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth. — Sharon Stone

I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it. — Sharon Stone

When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before. — Sharon Stone

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby. — Sharon Stone

Some countries that I go to are still trying to deny that it's happening. In India, 2.1 million people are living with HIV AIDS. India manufactures most of the drugs that are used to cure HIV around the world, which is an amazing, amazing fact that most people don't know. — Sharon Stone

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently. — Sharon Stone

I swear to God, I went in to buy bikinis, and the lady's like, 'You're not getting out of this store 'til you get down there and show me what you do for those abs and the arms.' She wouldn't sell me my bikinis! I had to get on the floor and do the stomach thing. — Sharon Stone

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life. — Sharon Stone

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes. — Sharon Stone

A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks. — Sharon Stone