Stone: "People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something."

Stone: "I was a social disaster, like I still am, because I tell the truth constantly. It’s a very antisocial quality, to just run around telling the truth to everybody."

Stone: "I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos."

Stone: "We don’t do this pretense that it’s not polite to discuss these things. Polite? What’s polite? We’re going to stop listening to the fake truth that is hurting and killing everybody, and we’re going to start talking about the truth that counts. The truth that matters."

Stone: "Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby."

Stone: "I believe that the point of my book is that it narrates a rather regular life. I don’t think that my life is exceptional, except that I ended up being a movie star."

Stone: "I like to be treated as a lady."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so."

Stone: "I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people."

Stone: "I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'"

Stone: "I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers."

Stone: "It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself."

Stone: "People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention."

Stone: "My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse."

Stone: "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."

Stone: "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."