I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
ROSE MCGOWANI literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
ROSE MCGOWANI’m not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it’s just kind of more instinctive. But I don’t have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.
ROSE MCGOWANI don’t believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I’m 70. And I know I will be.
ROSE MCGOWANI kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.
ROSE MCGOWANI think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
ROSE MCGOWANQuentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He’s very loud and fun. I don’t think there’s anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.
ROSE MCGOWANThis hetero – normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It’s okay to be different.
ROSE MCGOWANI really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.
ROSE MCGOWANThere have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it’s like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there’s a certain energy that attracts that.
ROSE MCGOWANThe people that are the invisible ones, the marginalized, the quote-unquote weirdos, the people that get things thrown at them, the people that get harassed every day just for existing . . . I just still strongly align with them.
ROSE MCGOWANSince I didn’t grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn’t have the normal . . . I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren’t my concerns. My concerns were survival.
ROSE MCGOWANI realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.
ROSE MCGOWANI always thought I was more satanic than Manson.
ROSE MCGOWANI live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, “What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It’s not this one.”
ROSE MCGOWANThere are moments when you act that you actually disappear from your body, and that’s amazing. That’s better than any drug, I would imagine. People take drugs to disappear from themself, and that’s what it feels like when you hit that moment.
ROSE MCGOWANHollywood is all about making an entrance. I don’t want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.
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