Quotes from Sharon Stone

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

I have learned to forgive the unforgivable. My hope is that as I share my journey, you too will learn to do the same.

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

I am working on forgiving the unforgivable.

I've seen him become sober so many times and do so well, and struggle to be a right guy. And fall apart again. But to what end?

Thus, the benefit of travel and open-mindedness: one can find one's own tribe.

There is an exercise in a book I read by Pema Chödrön, an American woman who became a Buddhist nun, where you sit and concentrate on that which is overwhelming you and ask this energy, this thing, to overwhelm you totally; to consume you. At the point of total consumption, then you ask how many others are feeling this same exact thing at the same exact time and you ask to join their energy. I have found this to be the most healing and compassionate exercise.

For those of us who have felt this broken piece that has left us unable to mate as others seem to do, there is such comfort in solitude. There is comfort in the alone time, I guess. Or it just seems less dangerous.

That love is a comfort to me. I know that the balm it now offers as I feel the wound of his loss will stay with me and transform this grief into something else.

What she helped me learn is that even compassion has boundaries. It is not for those who get up each day and choose a path of discord. This includes me. I have learned that I do not deserve compassion either if I do the same.

This identity has a fuzzy-socks basket, a fire in the fireplace, dogs snoring on the couch. A library full of books to read and to look at.

No one can ever make your dream perfect but you.

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 needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle.