SHARON STONE - STONE: 'MEN ARE DOGS'

Hollywood beauty SHARON STONE is glad to be single, after enduring countless relationships with "unbalanced" ex-boyfriends.

The BROKEN FLOWERS actress, 47, has been married and divorced three times, to PHIL BRONSTEIN, MICHAEL GREENBERG and GEORGE ENGLUND JR.

Stone admits she tends to be romantically involved with troubled men and likens the male sex to "dogs".

She says, "All the exes in my life either had an offbeat mother or underwent some kind of childhood crisis. They were unbalanced, looking for parental guidance and they see me as the mother figure.

"I think all men are dogs. I honestly do. You know every man starts barking sooner or later.

"At least my character in BASIC INSTINCT has the good sense to kill men afterwards, so they won't go around sprouting nonsense."