Top 100 Mcgowan Quotes
#1. They think they're runnin' the country but all they're doin' is writin' the reports." From Homesteader; Finding Sharon by D.M. McGowan
D. M. McGowan
#2. Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.
Al Barlick
#3. Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be doing 'Ready Steady Go!' on T.V., and Biba used to make our dresses. We'd be in the flat in Cromwell Road on Friday night, just before the live show, and they'd still be sewing.
Cilla Black
#4. It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.
Rose McGowan
#5. It was the first time I had ever felt guilt at finding a man attractive.
Tabitha McGowan
#6. 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.
Rose McGowan
#7. 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.
Rose McGowan
#8. I don't expect you to be like them. Don't want you to be. It's not them I want, it's you. From the moment we met, it's only been you.
Tabitha McGowan
#9. It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.
Rose McGowan
#10. I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
Rose McGowan
#11. I am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!
Rose McGowan
#12. 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.
Rose McGowan
#13. Photographer Man Ray, for example, is a compelling suspect given that the posing of Ms. Short's body appeared to mimic the Minotaur, one of his better-known photographs.
David McGowan
#14. I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.
Rose McGowan
#15. The tricky bit was figuring out where we were because I couldn't imagine anyone, God included, daring to send Lilith Bresson to hell.
Tabitha McGowan
#16. 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
Rose McGowan
#17. For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.
Kathleen McGowan
#18. I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.
Rose McGowan
#19. 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.
Rose McGowan
#20. Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?
Rose McGowan
#21. I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.
Rose McGowan
#22. The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.
Kathleen McGowan
#23. From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.
Rose McGowan
#24. Because, you see, the cruel gods are stronger than the kind gods, and they will always beat them in the end. You doubt it? Look at the world, my brother, my sister. And so the spirit of Roth is here with me also, and battles for my soul. And I don't know who will win.
Anthony McGowan
#25. Eamonn Carr was coming in with tea on a tray, and what looked like home-made biscuits. Paula took her drink gratefully, but saw that Guy just sipped his and put it down on a well-placed coaster.
Claire McGowan
#26. I've got one of those horrendous personalities that needs to know every detail about whatever I'm working on.
Tabitha McGowan
#27. I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own .
Rose McGowan
#28. 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.
Rose McGowan
#29. 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.
Rose McGowan
#30. She wore a cantilevered, augmented-breast-skimming satin dress the colour of egg-yolk. Somewhere in deepest Nebraska, a prom queen two sizes smaller than Selena was wondering where the fuck her outfit had disappeared to.
Tabitha McGowan
#31. I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.
Rose McGowan
#32. 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.
Rose McGowan
#33. Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal ... I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival.
Rose McGowan
#34. A good speech should be a like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. - WINSTON CHURCHILL
Bill McGowan
#35. ...it was like finding a brother who farts in key.
Dale McGowan
#36. I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
Rose McGowan
#37. I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.
Rose McGowan
#38. The fanciful theory that a person's life was etched on their physical form - be it despair, happiness, or in this case sheer depravity - was entirely disproved by Blaine. That, or she already had a huge portrait or herself slowly decaying in the attic.
Tabitha McGowan
#39. All he really cared about was Nexi energy, and the possibilities the magical science presented him. And right now, he needed to ensure his employer would be able to keep control over the most destructive monster the world had ever seen.
Aaron McGowan
#40. You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.
Rose McGowan
#41. It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.
Kathleen McGowan
#42. 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.
Rose McGowan
#43. I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
Rose McGowan
#44. I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.
Rose McGowan
#45. Mormons and Hindus are the least likely to marry a partner outside their own faith (17% and 10%, respectively), and only 5% of Mormons and 3% of Hindus are married to someone who is unaffiliated.
Dale McGowan
#46. 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.
Rose McGowan
#47. I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!
Rose McGowan
#48. 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.
Rose McGowan
#50. I pleaded, like a naughty schoolgirl persuading the class swots to bunk off for the afternoon.
Tabitha McGowan
#51. I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
Kathleen McGowan
#52. There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.
Kathleen McGowan
#53. Lilith Bresson, innocent of everything except having a bastard for a father, took her new fate with a calm that was terrifying.
Tabitha McGowan
#54. Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.
Kathleen McGowan
#55. There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'
Rose McGowan
#56. No matter what anyone "does to you" along your path to either personal or professional happiness, that person cannot interfere with your destiny. Only you are in control of that, within the master plan created with God.
Kathleen McGowan
#57. I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.
Jen McGowan
#58. 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.
Rose McGowan
#59. 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.
Rose McGowan
#60. Our forefathers understood the dangers of consolidated power. This is why they provided for a separation of powers within the U.S. Government between the three branches. For the very same reason, the First Amendmants provides for a separation of church and state.
Barry McGowan
#61. 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.
Rose McGowan
#62. I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.
Rose McGowan
#63. 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.
Rose McGowan
#64. The voice in my head is is fond of upper-case. It's like having a sub-cranial golden retriever.
Tabitha McGowan
#65. 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
#66. Hang on," Areo called back to Borely. "And quit screaming." Borely laughed. "I had always hoped to die in a glorious way. Can't think of anything more spectacular than this!" "Don't die, you idiot,
Aaron McGowan
#67. As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing. I don't want to do the same thing that the writer is doing; I want to add an angle or highlight a theme.
Jen McGowan
#68. 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.
Rose McGowan
#69. Even at this ridiculous hour, and clad in a faded blue t-shirt and ancient pyjama pants, he looked like something Michelangelo might reject for being too beautiful
Tabitha McGowan
#70. 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.
Rose McGowan
#71. 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.
Rose McGowan
#72. On balance, I'd say I prefer performing in front of a few thousand adoring women, but 'Security Guard at the Castle of the Damned' comes a pretty close second. I should be fine, as long as there are no ghosts.
Tabitha McGowan
#73. I had never thought about what made someone a good whore - too close to home, perhaps - but I only needed to watch Finn for moments to see he was skilled at his trade.
Tabitha McGowan
#74. Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
Rose McGowan
#75. 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
#76. Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.
Rose McGowan
#77. 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.
Rose McGowan
#79. And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate a new model? Then do it. That is part of your destiny, boy.
Kathleen McGowan
#80. The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One
Kathleen McGowan
#81. 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.
Rose McGowan
#82. Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.
Kathleen McGowan
#83. I can't do this alone, Finn. I need you beside me.
Nobody had ever said that to me.
Tabitha McGowan
#84. I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.
Rose McGowan
#86. I didn't know what the hell to say to that. I just gave an ungrateful sigh of exasperation and pulled the sweater over my head.
'It's just your colour,' Henry enthused.
'And you can fuck right off,' I said.
Tabitha McGowan
#87. I should've been a nun, he says, half aloud, as his feet leave the ledge.
Dale McGowan
#88. Well golly fucking gosh how terribly delightful for her. Now get out.
Tabitha McGowan
#89. I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea.
Zach McGowan
#90. In a fortnight Lilith had figured out more about me than anyone had ever cared to know, and I could only hope that she would hold it gently.
Tabitha McGowan
#92. I have this prodigious talent for painting the person behind the facade, but with Blaine the facade is all there is left - just artifice, guile, and an expensive pair of silicone tits.
Tabitha McGowan
#93. In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that.
Zach McGowan
#94. 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.
Rose McGowan
#95. Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
Anthony McGowan
#96. I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.
Rose McGowan
#97. I think gay marriage should be the national law.
Rose McGowan
#98. The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. - Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher
Dale McGowan
#99. What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to ponder such possibilities denies the value of motherhood.
Debbie McGowan
#100. But at this moment, for me, family equals safety; Burn equals safety; love equals safety. And if I trust my heart, my instincts, my strength, I know I'll always be safe.
Maureen McGowan
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