Sharon Stone Quotes

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

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.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

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

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

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

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

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.

I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I am big into aromatherapy.

The worse that could happen has already happened to me.

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

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

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.

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.

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

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.

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!

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

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

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

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

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.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

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

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

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.

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

I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?

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.

All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper.

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.

If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

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

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.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

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

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But I don't think it's alright to distort yourself.

I like to be treated as a lady.

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