Sharon Stone Quotes

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which people take most seriously. In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree , but just more so than I appear to be.

My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

I've never felt like I fit in. I always feel like I'm walking in the wrong direction or swimming upstream.

I know it sounds so dumb, but when you've had pink hair for 12 years and take that away, you're looked at in a different light.

I'm just not very rock n' roll.

I wouldn't say I'm a commodity. I try not to think about it too much.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I'm just a free spirit.

Honestly, I don't think I ever really was a sweet country girl. I think that was a misconception about me. I was always bad.