Quotes from Sharon Stone

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

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

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.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

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.

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 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.

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.

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.