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 MCGOWANSince 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 MCGOWANFrom a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I’m into female vengeance.
ROSE MCGOWANI kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.
ROSE MCGOWANQuentin 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 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 MCGOWANI am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I’m thirty, and I can’t wait!!
ROSE MCGOWANI really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.
ROSE MCGOWANI think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
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 MCGOWANOne of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.
ROSE MCGOWANIt’s interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.
ROSE MCGOWANI realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.
ROSE MCGOWANI literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
ROSE MCGOWANSome 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 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.
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