Top 120 Sharon Stone Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you act like you know what you’re going, you can do anything you want – except neurosurgery.”

— Sharon Stone

2. “People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

4. “Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.”

— Sharon Stone

5. “I’m enjoying my years, I’m enjoying my life, I’m enjoying my family. I’m just happy – a happy person.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

8. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

9. “I like being a woman, not a girl.”

— Sharon Stone

10. “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!”

— Sharon Stone

11. “A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It’s like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.”

— Sharon Stone

12. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

13. “I’m relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.”

— Sharon Stone

14. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

15. “I don’t really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I’m not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I’m not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

17. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

18. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

19. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

20. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

21. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

23. “I think I am aging, but I’m enjoying the process.”

— Sharon Stone

24. “The worse that could happen has already happened to me.”

— Sharon Stone

25. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

26. “I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I’m currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I’m really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.”

— Sharon Stone

27. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

28. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

31. “I am ready for love but I’m not desperately seeking it.”

— Sharon Stone

32. “Once you’ve had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.”

— Sharon Stone

33. “Don’t be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.”

— Sharon Stone

34. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

35. “Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it’s wonderful that she didn’t cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

39. “I’m not big on plastic surgery for me but I don’t fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it’s not my thing.”

— Sharon Stone

40. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

43. “People are afraid of changing; that they’re losing something. They don’t understand that they are also gaining something.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

45. “I’m very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.”

— Sharon Stone

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

— Sharon Stone

47. “You grow. You don’t want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn’t going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what’s fun for you.”

— Sharon Stone

48. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

49. “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.”

— Sharon Stone

50. “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...”

— Sharon Stone