Rose McGowan
SeFi III-
Demographics
Gender Female
Birth Name Rósa Arianna McGowan
Birthplace Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy
Birth Date September 5, 1973
Ethnicity Northwestern European
Nationality American
Career Actress, activist, author, model, and singer
Color Season Dark Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Outspoken activist
Gamma Sensualist
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McGowan: "I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything."
McGowan: "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."
McGowan: "I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery."
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."
McGowan: "I don't care what people say! Please get that straight. I really don't. Because I can't."
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."
McGowan: "I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry."
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."
McGowan: "We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment."
McGowan: "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?'"
McGowan: "I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'"
McGowan: "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."
McGowan: "I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on."
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."
McGowan: "I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life."
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."
McGowan: "I really believe in being egalitarian."
McGowan: "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."
McGowan: "I think gay marriage should be the national law."
McGowan: "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."