I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
DREW BARRYMOREI’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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What’s helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.
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When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it’s important to seek out that reason – that’s how we learn.
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When you’ve been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn’t have to act perfect all the time.
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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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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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I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,’ which is what happened when we did ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.
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I’ve got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That’s a relationship that works.
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I never act my characters – I am them.
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When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven’t figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.
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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 understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don’t feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, ‘We don’t have to feel pain.’ No! Let’s feel it, let’s make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.
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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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