Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops! Rose McGowan More Quotes by Rose McGowan More Quotes From 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, than I ever have been, as a director. Rose McGowan linesactingdirectors There are moments when you act that you actually disappear from your body, and that's amazing. That's better than any drug, I would imagine. People take drugs to disappear from themself, and that's what it feels like when you hit that moment. Rose McGowan drugbodypeople There's nothing wrong with being an agitator. Rose McGowan Short-sightedness is killing us. Rose McGowan killing Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together... Rose McGowan stillsifstogether I 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 McGowan hollywoodtownsway I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things. Rose McGowan just-beingbeing-humanhumans The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what. Rose McGowan god-knowsdoorstalking This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. Rose McGowan herdsdifferentbehavior 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. Rose McGowan weirdoinvisiblepeople 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 McGowan teenagegrowing-upschool Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage and their rage is their masculinity being threatened. We're scared for good reason. Rose McGowan scaredragemen If somebody said something racist around me, or you, or most people, you would correct it, you would stop it, but when they say things about women, so frequently no one says anything. That has to change. Rose McGowan racistsay-anythingpeople I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own... Rose McGowan homehairkids I went from being just a kid to all of a sudden not being able to walk a block without a man waggling his tongue through his fingers, which is disgusting. I mean, I was 13 and suddenly I'm trying to see myself through the eyes of men, trying to figure out why I'm getting this reaction from them versus just being able to walk through the world whole. Rose McGowan blockmeankids I'd never even seen orange cheese. I mean, who decided to make that orange? And so there was something different about me that they wanted to crush. I don't think it had anything to do with my physicality, but every single day in school it was, "You're the ugliest thing I've ever seen." Rose McGowan crushmeanschool I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least. Rose McGowan oregonducksmoving 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. Rose McGowan girlflowerchildren 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 McGowan mindstepsneeds 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? Rose McGowan countrykidsthinking
