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I kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.

Rose McGowan

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 really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.
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Being Freedom Human Just
One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.
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Art Goal World
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 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 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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Acting Directors Lines
I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
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Burn Stakes Thinking
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
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
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
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
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’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
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
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

I kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.

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