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" I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life. "
Rose McGowan
Absurd
Things
Love
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" 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. "
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" 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!' "
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" 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 know if you can truly deal with pain. "
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" 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. "
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" I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.' "
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" 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. "
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" If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better. "
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" I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on. "
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Seen
" I don't care what people say! Please get that straight. I really don't. Because I can't. "
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People
People Say
" I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing. "
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Trying
Never
" It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, 'What was it like to work for this man?' "
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Me
Myself
Work
" 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. "
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Man
Strong
Blonde
" 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. "
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Him
Want
Why
" I don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie. "
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Down
Face
Know
" 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. "
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People
Movies
Care
" I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry. "
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Never
Word
" I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything. "
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Brain
Everything
" 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. "
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" Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done. "
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" 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. "
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" I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery. "
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" 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. "
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You
" Women's rights are women's rights. One of the things that woke me up was equal pay. I started thinking about it: Who is the leader of women? Take me to your leader. And there were no leaders. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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