Rose McGowan Quotes

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!

There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.

I talk a lot when I'm nervous.

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

You'll learn that the most worthwhile exercises are preceded by this very human phenomenon, fear. Marriage, parenthood, relationships.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven’t been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.

What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

All belief is a cover-up for insecurity