230 Quotes by Sharon Stone

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’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.

I’ve never thought of myself as a great beauty – just a great magician.

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.

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I’ve still got a long way to go.

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.

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.

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.

When you’re a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you’re an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it’s, like, seven feet long.