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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.

- Rose McGowan

Both Sides, Used, Discarded, Wizard Of Oz

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

- Rose McGowan

Red, Came, Waving, Red Lipstick

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

Shy, Want, Pretty, Preconceived

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

Love, Next, Most Amazing, Ore

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?'

- Rose McGowan

Me, Years, So Many Years, Interview

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

- Rose McGowan

Thought, Other, Lord, Stone

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

Thought, Big, Shop, Flops

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.

- Rose McGowan

Big, Some, I Think, Writes

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, Like, Been, Attracts

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

- Rose McGowan

Will, Shake, Even, Ankles

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

Doing, Before, Conan, Great Fun

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

Here, Happen, Using, Concentrated

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

- Rose McGowan

Law, Think, I Think, Gay Marriage

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.

- Rose McGowan

My Life, Think, Took, Ran

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

- Rose McGowan

Go, Making, Wrong Choices, Awry

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

Uncomfortable, Worrying, Stopping

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

Maybe, Birth Certificate, Regular

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

Own, Hollywood, Movie, Bored

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

Fancy, Scream, Wearing, Jimmy

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

- Rose McGowan

Critical, Lobbyists, Bravery

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

Brilliant, Been, Figure, Tragic

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.

- Rose McGowan

Dangerous, Like, Before, Tall

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

Think, Like, Going, Moderate

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

Think, Loud, Very, Tarantino

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

Die, Alive, Joe, None

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

College, Doing, Movie, Farm

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

- Rose McGowan

Like, Spoke, Everybody, Dull

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

Work, Been, Having, Frustrating

I really believe in being egalitarian.

- Rose McGowan

Believe, Being, Really, Egalitarian

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

Luck, Die, I Think, Messages

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