I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
DREW BARRYMOREI always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn’t have it growing up.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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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’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.
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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’d definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child’s dreams. I’d just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do… I think I’d be a good parent, actually.
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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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Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they’re dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it’ll make it better.
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I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.
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I didn’t grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner ‘plan,’ it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.
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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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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex – But Were Afraid to Ask”. I was not afraid to ask.
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I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it’s great. It’s really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
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I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else’s door. Because I don’t want the remnants. I don’t want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.
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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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