204 Quotes by Rose McGowan

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I really believe in being egalitarian.