Rose McGowan Quotes

There 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.
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Body Drug Imagine People
You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I’m certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don’t get brain-damaged before I get there
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Brain Certainly Smacking Trying Wall
I don’t believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I’m 70. And I know I will be.
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Believe Climbing Pyramids
I’ve had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.
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Four Long Periods
From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I’m into female vengeance.
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Age Empowerment Underdog
There 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.
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Causes Energy Suicide
Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together…
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Banded Stills Together
I realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.
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Built Careers Much Realized
Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.
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Light May People Some
I’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.
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Character Thinking Writing
Quentin 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.
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Fun Insanity Thinking
I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It’s hand-in-glove for me.
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Animal Gun Hands
I was a boy in the ads I did as a child. My sister was the girl, and I was the boy. I had short hair and I was in overalls and I was giving flowers to my sister Daisy, who fit their model of what a girl was supposed to look like.
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Children Flower Girl Short
I like strong, strong women who don’t go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don’t come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I’m not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.
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Fighting Fun Strong Women
I don’t mind being disliked – I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me.
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Mind Needs Steps
Since 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.
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Growing School Teenage Up
It’s interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.
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Interesting People Roles
I’m not attracted to dangerous men. I’m attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6’6; the one before was 6’4, then 6’3. I like freakishly tall people.
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Dangerous Man Men People
I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.
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Manson Satanic
This hetero – normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It’s okay to be different.
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Behavior Different Herds
There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, ‘I can’t believe how overpriced these are!’ I thought, ‘Gosh, if I’m gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!’
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Believe Shoes Wall
Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don’t want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.
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Entrance Hollywood Want
I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
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Idiot Pity Stupid
I am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I’m thirty, and I can’t wait!!
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Kicks Thirty Waiting
I think of the kids that live on top of garbage dumps, I think of the ways we could reach out to other countries, I think of certainly climate change. There’s so much. The nighttime is that time, is it not?
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Climate Country Kids Thinking
I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.
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Being Freedom Human Just
I kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.
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Grew Kind World

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