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When I did ‘E.T.,’ it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of ‘This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I’m going to survive.’

Drew Barrymore

I’m very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
DREW BARRYMORE

Kids Powerful Thinking
Sometimes you come to a point where there’s nothing more you can do. You love and respect each other, but it’s not working. So you amicably decide to part. I don’t know what the future holds: a lot of people get back together after they break up.
DREW BARRYMORE

People Sometimes Together
A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
DREW BARRYMORE

Business Creativity Protection
I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
DREW BARRYMORE

Away Blown People Want
I’ve got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That’s a relationship that works.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dog Pet Work Years
The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.
DREW BARRYMORE

Lobster Mind Ocean
Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
DREW BARRYMORE

Passion Pride Spiritual
I don’t like working by a monitor. I stand right next to the camera, and I’m very performance-oriented. That really means everything to me, whether it’s doing an improv of a joke or an emotional scene, and everything in between.
DREW BARRYMORE

Camera Emotional Mean
Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.
DREW BARRYMORE

Grandfather Interesting People
But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
DREW BARRYMORE

Done T-shirt Way Woman
I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
DREW BARRYMORE

Good Happen Things Want
I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
DREW BARRYMORE

Important Mind People
The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn’t even know how to boil an egg.
DREW BARRYMORE

Eggs Faces Firsts
I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
DREW BARRYMORE

Appearance Impact Thinking
Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they’re dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it’ll make it better.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dying Flower Helping
I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
DREW BARRYMORE

Hurt People Want

When I did ‘E.T.,’ it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of ‘This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I’m going to survive.’

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When I did ‘E.T.,’ it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of ‘This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I’m going to survive.’

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