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.

For her work on 'Walls' Sharon Stone was again recognized by Women in Film this time with the Lucy Award. In 2001 Stone was linked to a biopic of the German film director Leni Riefenstahl. To coincide with the film's release Sharon Stone posed nude for Playboy showing off the muscles Sharon Stone developed in preparation for the film (Sharon Stone lifted weights and learned taekwondo).

She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct by Paul Verhoeven. Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10 1958) is an American actress film producer and former fashion model. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Casino.