Top 163 Quotes & Sayings by Sharon Stone - Page 3

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.

Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.

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

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

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.

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

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

Sex is so much more in the mind than in the body.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

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

Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading list for me right now? What is this carton of milk? Will you tell me how many calories are in five and half Gummi Bears? Why are there birds in the air right now? Why is the sky so blue? Can I get the home phone number of the school district supervisor? You know I was in Basic Instinct, right?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

You think, I love more everyday. I love more everyday, more everyday, 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. And then you love so much more than you ever dreamed possible.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

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

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

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.

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

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

It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.

The worse that could happen has already happened to me.

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

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

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.

I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.

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