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 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 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 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 MCGOWANIt’s interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.
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 MCGOWANI’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 MCGOWANI really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.
ROSE MCGOWANI realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.
ROSE MCGOWANThere 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 MCGOWANI 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 MCGOWANOne of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.
ROSE MCGOWANYou 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 MCGOWANI am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I’m thirty, and I can’t wait!!
ROSE MCGOWANI 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 MCGOWANI’ve had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.
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