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• 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!

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• 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.

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• Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I’ve continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do ‘Conan,’ I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

   

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• I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

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• I love the absurd – kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

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• I realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.

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• I think gay marriage should be the national law.

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• 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.

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• I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don’t think he should try to be so moderate.

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• I’m not attracted to dangerous men. I’m attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6’6; the one before was 6’4, then 6’3. I like freakishly tall people.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Rose McGowan (28)

Birth:	5th September, 1973
Nationality:	American, Italian
Profession:	Actress, Singer

About

Rose Arianna McGowan is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB Television Network supernatural drama series Charmed. She played Ann-Margret alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis Presley in the CBS mini-series Elvis. In 2008, she was guest programmer and co-host of TCM's film-series program, The Essentials.

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