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 MCGOWANI 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?
More Rose McGowan Quotes
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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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One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.
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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.
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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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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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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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I kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.
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I realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.
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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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It’s interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.
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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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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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I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
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I’ve had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.
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Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together…
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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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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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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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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.
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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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This hetero – normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It’s okay to be different.
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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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I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
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I am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I’m thirty, and I can’t wait!!
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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.
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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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