- I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake.
- I am going to be pretty kick ass by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!
- 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.
- "I always thought I was more satanic than Manson" (Discussing the sinister reputation of her ex-fiancé Marilyn Manson).
- I feel people have tried to stamp out what is special about me. Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?
- It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.
- 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.
- When I lived in Europe, I was usually pretty exalted for the way I looked. I had minions who would run and get me candy...But when I moved to Oregon and entered my goth phase with spiky black hair, kids threw things at me.
- I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.
- I want to live in Paris. I want to learn to ice-skate and to box. I want to get a degree in Egyptology. I would like to not have to say "Like, oh my God!" in any movies. I would like to have a day go by without people screaming various obscenities about body parts. I'd like to still have Bug and Fester, my Boston terriers. I think I'd like to be with my boyfriend, except (laughs) I'm pretty commitment-shy. I'd like to please my father, who used to be in the Children of God, and do at least one more "porno" film - which is what he called The Doom Generation. I'd like to start some sort of counselling program for girls - when I was that age I was always told that I was gonna burn in hell. I would like to lose the guilt I have for compulsive spending. I would like to stop being addicted to diet hot chocolate.
- "I'm a fan of pink, I'm a fan of high-heeled shoes and I'm a fan of strange-looking dogs, so this hits all the notes for me" (At the Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) premiere).
- I don't really care how people view me particularly. It's not really any of my business because everyone is going to have their own opinion and if I started thinking about what everyone else thought of me, I'd go crazy.
- I think women look better with a little more weight on them. Being super thin makes you look haggard.
- Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.
- People thought (I was wild) because of who I was with (Manson). In reality I've been home baking cupcakes.
- I've always admitted it: I'm a man with really nice breasts - I'm so guilty of doing every single male thing. Not calling, not showing up, leaving at four in the morning.
- I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.
- 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.
- I know I am kind and I have fun and if I sat there and worried about what everybody else thought of me my brain would be very crowded.
- I imagine, had I grown up in Belfast, I would 100 per cent have been in the IRA. My heart just broke for the cause. Violence is not to be played out daily and provide an answer to problems, but I understand it.
- I've never come across any uncircumcised men. Actually except for Manson, my boyfriends have always been Jewish.
- It has been pointed out that I like people obsessed with their work - they leave me alone. If I'm looking for anything in a man, I'd say empathy, and thousands of miles between us.
- [about the abuse she's faced in Hollywood] The whole time, my entire career, I was very uncomfortable. I felt like I was wearing wet pants...I couldn't understand what was wrong with my life and everybody was telling me how lucky I was. I couldn't understand why I was that lucky because my life, on the other side of the camera, was very lonely and very difficult. I was working with a lot of very misogynistic men that were nasty. I didn't have great luck. I had a lot of really abusive directors. [2016]
- [on the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal] Men in Hollywood need to change ASAP. Hollywood's power is dying because society has changed and grown, and yet Hollywood male behavior has not. It is so not a good look. In the way cooler than Hollywood world I live and work in, I am actually embarrassed to be associated with it. The men of Hollywood need to know they own no woman. The days of Entourage (2004) - like behavior and thinking is as dated as your largely bro nature. (...) And for the women in Hollywood, free your minds. There are no 'rules' you have to play by. We affect the world's mind because we are creating and disseminating thought propaganda. There is a great responsibility to be better than you have to be. Stand for women. Stand for truth. Stop hurting us. Rise. [Oct. 2017]
- We're running out of time. I don't have time to play nice.
- [on Harvey Weinstein's victims] It's a story of perseverance and survival. But what we all share in common - besides the various hotel room stories - is what it's like to have your career and life stolen. [2018]
- [on Citizen Rose (2018)] It's super raw. But my life - I wanted people to see the truth, to see the personal cost, the toll. It did almost kill me, this stuff. Harvey [Harvey Weinstein] and his team of minions and accomplices and evildoers, they want me to be so insane I kill myself. [2018]
- [on Harvey Weinstein] He doesn't deserve to live. He doesn't deserve to breathe. [2018]
- I can't do short-term plotting, but I can do long-term plotting very well; I can play chess. [2018]
- I love cinema, but I hate what it's done to people. [Feb. 2018]
- [on meeting Weinstein in Sundance 1997] I pretended to have an orgasm. [from: "Brave" by R. McGowan, page 123]
- They hate Hollywood for being faux liberals - and they're right about that. It's a bunch of faux liberals.
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