“The bizarre thing about the industry is: you were discovered because you were unique. What was special about you when you were discovered, they do their damnedest to remove, not unlike what traditional society does to children.” HollywoodHollywood CultureSocietal PressureSociety Problems Book:Brave Source: Brave
“It was a brutal schedule. I would be on the airplane going back Monday morning at six after shooting all Sunday night, every time barely making my flight. When I arrived in Los Angeles, I had to rush straight to the Paramount studios and be a whole other person, this wildly different character, Paige. My brain was starting to scramble on top of its already fragile state.” HollywoodActressHollywood Culture Book:Brave Source: Brave
“I was being photographed by a gay male who was imagining me as what he thinks a straight man wants to fuck, and he was doing so on behalf of a director, a straight male who was interpreting me with his little boy brain on behalf of the studio, also male, who were interpreting me based on who they want to sell tickets to, which is this invisible horde of boys and men. The male gaze is real, ladies and gentlemen, and it is deep.” HollywoodHollywood CultureMale GazeSexualization Of WomenMan S World Book:Brave Source: Brave
“It’s an open secret in good old Hollywood. When charges are filed (rarely), the studios just continually settle with the victims, and use their PR machines to invalidate the claims. Usually where there is smoke there is an inferno, especially as Hollywood is concerned.” HollywoodPublic RelationsCover UpSexual Harassment Author:Rose McGowan
“Hollywood publicists, whom you're told you must have and who cost around $6000 per month, tell you what you should act like, look like, talk like — how you should respond to the press. They prey on fear and manipulate actors by threatening: 'Oh, the studio will be really upset with you if you don't do this.” HollywoodPublicityPublic LifeCelebrity Book:Brave Source: Brave
“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.” ThinkingWayArtCultureDyingProductsModelsHollywoodBusiness Models Author:Rose McGowan
“I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."” WayWonderHollywoodTownsInternationalDecades Author:Rose McGowan
“Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.” WantWalkingHollywoodEntrancesAdvertisements Author:Rose McGowan
