Sharon Stone Quotes

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

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

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.

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

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

I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series.

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

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.

I like to be treated as a lady.

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.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

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

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

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

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.

I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.

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

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

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?

I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.

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.

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

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.

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So I am the fastest cook in the world.

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

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.

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.

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.'

I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.

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.

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

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

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

I like being a woman, not a girl.

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

Every time I exercise, I do something different based on which areas need to get in motion.

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

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

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

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fridge and that somebody's going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.

The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

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.

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

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.

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.