I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
DREW BARRYMOREI’m not insecure. I’ve been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I’ve got huge balls. But I’ve been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.
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My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn’t. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn’t care for the lifestyle.
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I’m just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
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I’ve been producing for 13 years. I’ve made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.
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Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don’t be a people pleaser.
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I don’t really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
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I’m certainly not an uptight home owner.
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I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library… beyond that, I’m completely intimidated by it.
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A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
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I think my whole life, work has been a very important and positive thing for me. It never was something that made me feel unhappy or disengaged from life. It always makes me feel like I’m plugged in, in a really healthy way.
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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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Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
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I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.
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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.
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I never act my characters – I am them.
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I know that I won’t succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.
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California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.
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You know you’re putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.
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I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.
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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.
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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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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.
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You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
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I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I’m terribly self conscious.
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I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don’t relate to that at all. It isn’t fair! I absolutely live for food.
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I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
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