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.
As well as the new movies, which I am thrilled about, I would like to do more TV.
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
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.
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 am like two people, the person and the performer. My personal style and my public style are very different. I don't dress up to stay at home but when I go out I like to look the part. I love spending time at home just being a mum. But when I go out I become the performer again.
I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.
I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.
I don't mind being recognised, I often quite enjoy it. I don't mind signing autographs but sometimes it can be just a bit too much.
I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far.
I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.
I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.
I like being a woman, not a girl.
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
I like to be treated as a lady.
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.
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.
I realised my life would never be the same again and it made me prioritise much better and put a new perspective on my career.
I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.
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 tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
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.
I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.
If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
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.
It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.
Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people.
Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
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.
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.
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.
TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.
When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'
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.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
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.
Sharon recently snuck out of a party at Prince’s LA home through embarrassment. After being invited to a private party by Prince, she got so excited at his performance that she started dancing on his pink & purple sofa - in her stilettos. The bouncers shined a light in her face and yelled abuse at her for damaging Prince’s property.
Her scar on her neck is from a childhood accident. She was riding a horse and she ran right into a clothes line and it ripped her neck open.
Met her close friend Mimi Craven on the set of _Deadly Blessing (1981)_ . They subsequently worked together on the film Last Dance (1996) in 1996.
Spent many long workdays in agony while filming scenes for _Casino (1995)_ . She has back trouble due to an old injury, and the gold and white beaded gown she wore during a casino scene weighed 45 pounds.
Dated Dwight Yoakam in the early 1990s, and was rather famously quoted as saying, "Kissing Dwight is like eating a dirt sandwich."
Stone's former housekeeper Socorro Del Carmen Membreno pleaded not guilty to grand theft of $300,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables from Stone's L.A. home two months earlier. [2 March 2000]
She is allergic to caffeine.
As a teenager worked part-time as a McDonald's countergirl.
Has one older brother, one younger brother, and a younger sister (Kelly Stone).
Went to school at Saegertown High School, Saegertown, Pennsylvania.
She is a former "Ford" Model.
Reported to be dating Columbia Pictures production boss, Barry Josephson. [November 1996]
Entered Pennsylvania's Edinboro University at age 15.
Sharon and husband Phil Bronstein, a newspaperman, adopted a child they named Roan Joseph Bronstein, born 22 May 2000 in Texas. He weighed 5 pounds, 6 ounces, and was adopted by Stone and Bronstein a week after birth. His first name is Celtic for "seal," and his middle name is a tribute to Stone's father. [July 2000]
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