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" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Me
Rights
Thinking
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" I think gay marriage should be the national law. "
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" 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 would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate. "
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Like
Think
Try
" 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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Stress
Think
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Character
Someone
Nobody
" 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. "
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People
You
Think
" 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! "
Rose McGowan
Like
Birth
Home
" I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.' "
Rose McGowan
Because
Brave
Say
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Time
Tragedy
Want
" I came out of the womb waving red lipstick. "
Rose McGowan
Red Lipstick
Red
Lipstick
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Death
Family
Like
" My movement is 'Rose Army.' "
Rose McGowan
Movement
Army
Rose
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Age
Life
Four
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Like
Think
Him
" 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
Down
Face
Know
" I really believe in being egalitarian. "
Rose McGowan
Being
Really
Egalitarian
" I'm not interested in worrying in if I make people uncomfortable. I'm interested in stopping women and children dying - that's what I'm interested in. "
Rose McGowan
Dying
Children
Women
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Want
Back
College
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Return
Work
You
" I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life. "
Rose McGowan
Absurd
Things
Love
" I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on. "
Rose McGowan
Go
Wrong
Seen
" 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!' "
Rose McGowan
Believe
Stand
Story
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Body
Dog
Doors
" I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything. "
Rose McGowan
Just
Brain
Everything
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
People
Think
Die
" I don't care what people say! Please get that straight. I really don't. Because I can't. "
Rose McGowan
Say
People
People Say
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Meet
Black
Alive
" I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry. "
Rose McGowan
Myself
Never
Word
" 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. "
Rose McGowan
Him
Want
Why
" My focus isn't Hollywood; my focus is using Hollywood as an example. Because what happens here does happen everywhere. It's just a really concentrated and tense version here. "
Rose McGowan
Focus
Happen
Hollywood