Sharon Stone

Martin Scorsese directed Sharon Stone in Mafia drama ‘Casino’, in which she played Ginger McKenna, the wife of professional gambler and Tangiers Casino manager Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro).

Stone's performance earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

Stone, 65, revealed that the best career advice she ever got was given to her by ‘Basic Instinct’ director Paul Verhoeven and by Scorsese. She said: “Paul Verhoeven told me that my talent was like an angel that would fly through me and that I needed to get out of its way. And I think that that was very good advice. And Marty Scorsese very much was also — they were willing to tell me about their own lives, and they were willing to create a space with me where they would lean in and sometimes put their forehead on my forehead, both of them, and just hold the space around me so that I would have a space to be.”