Rose McGowan Quotes

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

Normality is death.

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.

Every writer is an outsider.