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.
DREW BARRYMOREI really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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Life’s too short. We have to love each other.
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Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don’t know if I’m sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I’m a bit on my own and that’s a very disheartening feeling.
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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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But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
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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 wanna smoke pot, but I can’t, cause I’m too paranoid.
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I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won’t be able to get to know someone another way.
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My life is so different than I thought it would be.
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I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
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If you’re going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.
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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 am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
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I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don’t need to see everything perfectly. I don’t like it.
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I don’t want to be vain or fearful, and I don’t think I’ll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there’s no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you’re lucky! The alternative is death.
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