Rose McGowan Quotes

1. I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.



2. At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

3. Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do "Conan," I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.

4. I did a cover for "Rolling Stone" the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought: "Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!" 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.






5. I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

6. 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.





7. I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

8. 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.

9. I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

10. I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

11. I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do.

12. I think gay marriage should be the national law.

13. I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

14. I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.



15. I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

16. 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.






17. I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

18. I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!

19. 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.


20. I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

21. I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.







22. 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.

23. Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read "The Tell-Tale Heart" at age four.

24. It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.



25. That's my takeaway from "Scream" - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a certain position and really hope you're not wearing something super fancy.

26. 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.







27. 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!"

28. They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me.


29. I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake.

30. I am going to be pretty kick ass by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!

31. 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.

32. Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.



33. (Discussing the sinister reputation of her ex-fiancé Marilyn Manson) I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.

34. I feel people have tried to stamp out what is special about me. Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?



35. It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

36. I'm a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I'll think of unique ways to get back at you. I'm more creative than your average bear.


37. When I lived in Europe, I was usually pretty exalted for the way I looked. I had minions who would run and get me candy…But when I moved to Oregon and entered my goth phase with spiky black hair, kids threw things at me.

38. 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.

39. I want to live in Paris. I want to learn to ice-skate and to box. I want to get a degree in Egyptology. I would like to not have to say: "Like, oh my God!" in any movies. I would like to have a day go by without people screaming various obscenities about body parts. I'd like to still have Bug and Fester, my Boston terriers. I think I'd like to be with my boyfriend, except (laughs) I'm pretty commitment-shy. I'd like to please my father, who used to be in the Children of God, and do at least one more "porno" film - which is what he called: "The Doom Generation". I'd like to start some sort of counseling program for girls - when I was that age I was always told that I was gonna burn in hell. I would like to lose the guilt I have for compulsive spending. I would like to stop being addicted to diet hot chocolate.

40. (at the Legally Blonde 2 premiere) I'm a fan of pink, I'm a fan of high-heeled shoes and I'm a fan of strange-looking dogs, so this hits all the notes for me.



41. I don't really care how people view me particularly. It's not really any of my business because everyone is going to have their own opinion and if I started thinking about what everyone else thought of me, I'd go crazy.

42. I think women look better with a little more weight on them. Being super thin makes you look haggard.

43. People thought (I was wild) because of who I was with (Manson). In reality I've been home baking cupcakes.

44. I've always admitted it: I'm a man with really nice breasts - I'm so guilty of doing every single male thing. Not calling, not showing up, leaving at four in the morning.

45. I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.


46. 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.

47. I know I am kind and I have fun and if I sat there and worried about what everybody else thought of me my brain would be very crowded.

48. I was supposed to be the belle of the ball, but I only lasted a day there and then, on January 29, my best friend committed suicide.


49. It's not only reduced a lot of the ups and downs that come with this lifestyle, but it's instilled a really strong work ethic in me.

50. I imagine, had I grown up in Belfast, I would 100 per cent have been in the IRA. My heart just broke for the cause. Violence is not to be played out daily and provide an answer to problems, but I understand it.

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