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 BARRYMOREI’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I’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.
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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.
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I definitely don’t think that I’m hot doo-doo. I don’t.
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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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If I ever start talking to you about my ‘craft’, my ‘instrument’, you have permission to shoot me.
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It’s the worst when you’re kissing someone who’s not a good kisser, and you’re trying to make it look good, but you feel like you’re just working on your own.
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You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
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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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It’s embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I’m glad I did.
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I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
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I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That’s not me trying to make everything OK – it’s me saying, “No, we love each other. Let’s not pretend we don’t.”
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I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.
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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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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 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’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
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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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I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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Life’s too short. We have to love each other.
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I never act my characters – I am them.
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