I realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.
ROSE MCGOWANThere 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.
More Rose McGowan Quotes
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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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This hetero – normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It’s okay to be different.
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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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Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together…
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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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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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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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I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.
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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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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 kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.
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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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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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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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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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