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.
DREW BARRYMOREI 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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I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
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I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
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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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You know you’re putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.
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I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
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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 wanna smoke pot, but I can’t, cause I’m too paranoid.
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I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.
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I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
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I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
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I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.
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My life is so different than I thought it would be.
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I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.
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Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
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When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
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