It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself. Sharon Stone More Quotes by Sharon Stone More Quotes From Sharon Stone Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life. Sharon Stone middle careers chance 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. Sharon Stone compassion kindness thinking I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true. Sharon Stone real kids thinking The worse that could happen has already happened to me. Sharon Stone happened happens It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth. Sharon Stone loses experience trying 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 gratitude grateful years 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 waiting want trying I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it. Sharon Stone ready-for-love seeking ready Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read. Sharon Stone dating bored book 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 should-have want fun 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 live-it-up cosmetics want 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 nice sleep beautiful I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough. Sharon Stone dough cookies done You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement. Sharon Stone fda office thinking 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. Sharon Stone barbie-dolls ideas thinking Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere. Sharon Stone hollywood want men 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 saws hot beautiful I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone? Sharon Stone lipstick knees phones 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. Sharon Stone medicine compassion giving Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt. Sharon Stone pedestal dancing complaining
