Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

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

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

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
Rose McGowan

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
Rose McGowan

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
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. Because it's been taken away from us. Because we've been silenced.

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

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

Rose McGowan
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 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.

Rose McGowan
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 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.

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery.

Rose McGowan
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
Rose McGowan

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.

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

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.

Rose McGowan
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 moderate.

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

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.

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

Rose McGowan
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 know if you can truly deal with pain.

Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan

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
Rose McGowan

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.