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I was never nervous directing. Not once. I’m more nervous acting. I’m far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

Rose McGowan

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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Fighting Fun Strong Women
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?
ROSE MCGOWAN

Climate Country Kids Thinking
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Fun Insanity Thinking
I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
ROSE MCGOWAN

Burn Stakes Thinking
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Children Flower Girl Short
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Causes Energy Suicide
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
ROSE MCGOWAN

Brain Certainly Smacking Trying Wall
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Body Drug Imagine People
I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Favors People Work Out
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!’
ROSE MCGOWAN

Believe Shoes Wall
If one person starts crying, I’ll cry. If one person has no money, I’ll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Bus Giving Grow Up Stops
I realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Built Careers Much Realized
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Dangerous Man Men People
I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Idiot Pity Stupid
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Animal Gun Hands
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Growing School Teenage Up
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Believe Climbing Pyramids
Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don’t want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Entrance Hollywood Want
This hetero – normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It’s okay to be different.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Behavior Different Herds
Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together…
ROSE MCGOWAN

Banded Stills Together
I kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Grew Kind World
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Light May People Some
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.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Mind Needs Steps
I 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 MCGOWAN

Hollywood Towns Way
The 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 MCGOWAN

Invisible People Weirdo
I’ve had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Four Long Periods
I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.
ROSE MCGOWAN

Being Freedom Human Just

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I’m more nervous acting. I’m far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

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I was never nervous directing. Not once. I’m more nervous acting. I’m far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

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