Top 80 Rose McGowan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Hetero – normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It’s okay to be different. It’s okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that’s a pathway out for you, too.”

— Rose McGowan

2. “People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we’re all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.”

— Rose McGowan

3. “I love the absurd – kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.”

— Rose McGowan

4. “I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.”

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5. “Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?”

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6. “It’s funny, honestly, by rights, with a lot of the stuff that’s happened to me I should be running down the street with my hair on fire, but instead I want to shape things, and I want to shake things up. There’s nothing wrong with being an agitator.”

— Rose McGowan

7. “Do not bend yourself to make others feel taller. When someone comes at you telling you what you are and slapping a label on you, simply ask them why. Why would you say that? Make THEM think.”

— Rose McGowan

8. “Being brave doesn’t mean you are not scared, it just means you do the scary thing anyway.”

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9. “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.”

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10. “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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11. “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.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.”

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14. “You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I’m certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don’t get brain-damaged before I get there.”

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15. “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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16. “I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it’s mostly just people who can’t spell who say mean things.”

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17. “If one person starts crying, I’ll cry. If one person has no money, I’ll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.”

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18. “From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I’m into female vengeance.”

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19. “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?”

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20. “I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It’s hand-in-glove for me.”

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21. “I don’t know how exactly but I’m maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily basis. Because it means that I’m still not jaded.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “A lot of times when you do things where you’re killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It’s fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.”

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24. “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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25. “And THAT is how you fall into an abusive relationship: when you start acting in a way so as not to upset the other person or set them off. You’ve given away control of your own life, bit by bit, bit by bit. It’s incremental, until one day, you have hidden so much of yourself you get lost.”

— Rose McGowan

26. “I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.”

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27. “I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I’m not hurting anybody else. I don’t understand why more people aren’t like that.”

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28. “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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29. “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.””

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30. “Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don’t want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.”

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31. “It’s my job to spread deviance to the American youth.”

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32. “I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake.”

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33. “I just felt like, “Why would you discuss my body as if it’s an object?” People will come up and say things like, “Are your breasts real?” I mean, people will come up and discuss my body as if I’m not human.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “Please take heed: when someone tries to insert himself into your life very quickly and rushes to tell you he loves you, that should be a big warning sign. And as much as you want to hear it, as you’re hungry to be seen with a capital S, as much as you’ve been lonely and just waiting for this, understand that very often these are the men who will turn on you.”

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36. “The truth of it is, the shame was not mine, and for all victims in similar situations, it is not ours. The shame is reserved for every creep who has ever touched us inappropriately. The shame is on the abuser, not the victim, not the survivor. It is tragic that so many of us have to survive this kind of crap, and I’m so sorry if it has happened to you.”

— Rose McGowan

37. “I’m a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I’ll think of unique ways to get back at you. I’m more creative than your average bear.”

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38. “I love Cate Blanchett: she takes risks, but is still refind.”

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39. “I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.”

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40. “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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41. “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.”

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42. “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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43. “I don’t believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I’m 70. And I know I will be.”

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44. “In our as-seen-on-TV society, the simple fact is that what you have watched and consumed, from birth, has formed you and continues to form you. Even those who’ve opted out of its false reality have to stay vigilant to remain free from the lies and from the messages that do far more harm than they should. Because they are insidious, and they are everywhere.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “My whole family is very art-based. My sister runs a gallery, my other sister works for PACE in New York, my other sister is a sculptor. I’d say the ending one is me because that’s the artist and the artist feels a lot.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.”

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49. “I’ve seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.”

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50. “I’ve had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.”

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