204 Quotes by Rose McGowan

When no one stands up to protect you, you stop expecting them to, it takes a toll. I was loosing my grip on sanity [...] I didn't know where to turn or who to turn to.

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.

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.

When I hear someone say they are not creative, I immediately think, you poor thing, they got to you. At what point was your creativity stolen from you? How old were you when they homogenized your mind?Because that is what non-creative thinking is: homogenized though.

I think it's bizarre and tragic how society pushes us to say what we are because of the job we do. The question "What do you do?" really means what do they pay you for, as if that's your defining characteristic. Everything else is a "hobby." But those are also things you are and do. Just because you don't make money at it doesn't mean you're not doing it. It's as valid as going to the office, maybe more so.

Theirs was a language I didn’t, and couldn’t, speak. They had concerns in life to which I couldn’t relate; my problems were about surviving. When you have really big, dark things happen to you, it takes a lot more to care about things. It felt like I was about eight thousand years old in a small person’s body, essentially an alien among those who understood traditional societal constructs.

I went through the emotions as it was really happening to me, because that's what acting is after all. [...] All told, I was fake married three times on film before my 'real' marriage. By then, I was repeating an emotional scene I'd already played. Your entertainment comes at a cost to us performers.

As an actor, you trick and abuse your emotions, bringing pain up only to have to shove it back down when you hear, 'CUT!' I believe acting, dramatic acting, is a form of self-abuse. Take after take of pulling up dark emotions only to seal them up when camera stops rolling...

I was thirty-one at this point. I was deep in the grips of Hollywood conditioning. The thing is, I was always playing roles that were younger, at least five years younger, which amplified my twisted perception of aging. You have done something wrong! You have lived! You start feeling crazier with each birthday that passes.