'I like being alive': Sharon Stone opens up on aging, says 'people who are embarrassed about being older are just stupid'

Sharon Stone admitted that aging is a great thing and she is grateful as she is about to become another year older
PUBLISHED JAN 26, 2024
Sharon Stone said that 40s was a tough period in her life (Tim P Whitby/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)
Sharon Stone said that 40s was a tough period in her life (Tim P Whitby/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Sharon Stone could not be more grateful as she is about to become another year older. During an interview earlier this month with The Times, the actress, who will turn 66 in March, clapped her hands and said, "Yay. Two exact months until my birthday and I’ll be even older. Sixty-six."

"I like being alive and healthy. And I think that we should all be super-thrilled to make it," Stone continued. "Because I’ve witnessed any number of people not making it. I think that people who are embarrassed about being older are just stupid and ungrateful," she added in the interview which was published Friday, January 26. 

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - SEPTEMBER 25:  Sharon Stone arrives to receive the ZFF Golden Icon Award ahead
Sharon Stone could not be more grateful as she is about to become another year older (Getty Images)

Sharon Stone previously opened up on aging

Stone previously opened up to AARP The Magazine about aging, in a joint interview with fellow screen legends Jane Fonda and Alfre Woodard. “I’ve stopped questioning everything, and that gives me a lot more room to breathe,” Stone said at the time, adding “I think it’s just getting comfortable in yourself – in everything – but certainly the work.”

Sharon Stone onstage during the in Conversation with Sharon Stone at the Red Sea International Film Festival on December 02, 2022 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Sharon Stone said that 'people who are embarrassed about being older are just stupid and ungrateful' (Getty Images)

“I frankly think aging is a great thing, and we’re lucky when we get to do it because, particularly in our generation, we’ve lost so many people to so many different things,” she continued.

She said that her acting has completely changed since her 20s and 30s. “You’re a mess in the first act, going on instinct and bravado,” she said, adding “I’m better now at all the things you can’t touch with your hands. I’m more discerning. My joy is deeper and less shakable. My craft is really fine-tuned.”


 
 
 
 
 
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Sharon Stone opened up on what was her favorite age

Stone also discussed her favorite age so far in a cover interview for the November 2019 issue of Allure, saying, “My 40s were so beautiful." “I couldn’t work because women, once they got to be 40, were not given jobs in Hollywood," said the Oscar-nominated actress


 
 
 
 
 
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Stone told the magazine that her 40s were a tough period in her life, but she also revealed there “was something wonderful” about it. “I was a mom with three beautiful little boys. I was recovering from a massive brain injury, and I was in custody court constantly over my oldest child,” said the actress, who is mother to sons Roan, 23, Laird, 18, and Quinn, 17.


 
 
 
 
 
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“But there was something wonderful in that period of all those challenges," Stone said, adding "And even though no one wanted to date me — no one would want a woman that had little children — it was a period of reconciliation and change, and understanding myself.”

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