Rose McGowan

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

— Rose McGowan

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

— Rose McGowan

I don't care what people say! Please get that straight. I really don't. Because I can't.

— Rose McGowan

I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry.

— Rose McGowan

I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.

— Rose McGowan

While I learned, I hid out largely in the gay community, and overall it kept me very safe.

— Rose McGowan

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

— Rose McGowan

Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?

— Rose McGowan

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it.…

— Rose McGowan

The fact that I still want the best for the world is kind of amazing. People slandered me for years and years…

— Rose McGowan

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

— Rose McGowan

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if…

— Rose McGowan

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it.…

— Rose McGowan

I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go…

— Rose McGowan

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't…

— Rose McGowan

There are some movies that I absolutely hate but someone else loves - people love things for different reasons.

— Rose McGowan

I was a boy in the ads I did as a child. My sister was the girl, and I was the boy.…

— Rose McGowan

There are moments when you act that you actually disappear from your body, and that's amazing. That's better than any drug, I…

— Rose McGowan

Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason.…

— Rose McGowan

Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal . . . I grew up in…

— Rose McGowan

It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in…

— Rose McGowan

I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of…

— Rose McGowan

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't…

— Rose McGowan

My whole family is very art-based. My sister runs a gallery, my other sister works for PACE in New York, my other…

— Rose McGowan

I don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie.

— Rose McGowan

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

— Rose McGowan

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

— Rose McGowan

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

— Rose McGowan

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways,…

— Rose McGowan

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.…

— Rose McGowan

Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage…

— Rose McGowan

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more…

— Rose McGowan

I think of the kids that live on top of garbage dumps, I think of the ways we could reach out to…

— Rose McGowan

People are like, 'Do you watch movies?' I'm like, 'I don't care.' I've ceased caring. I can't watch that construct anymore.

— Rose McGowan

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines,…

— Rose McGowan

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time…

— Rose McGowan

What I do with my work is, I give women permission to be angry. Because that's our right. Because it's an emotion.…

— Rose McGowan

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read…

— Rose McGowan

I'm a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I'll think of unique ways to get back at…

— Rose McGowan

I just felt like, "Why would you discuss my body as if it's an object?" People will come up and say things…

— Rose McGowan