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.
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 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 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 have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library… beyond that, I’m completely intimidated by it.
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I’m not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.
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Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It’s about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
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I wanna smoke pot, but I can’t, cause I’m too paranoid.
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California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.
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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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Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.
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When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.
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People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
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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 think my whole life, work has been a very important and positive thing for me. It never was something that made me feel unhappy or disengaged from life. It always makes me feel like I’m plugged in, in a really healthy way.
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I never act my characters – I am them.
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I don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
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