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 BARRYMOREThere are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let’s get down and dirty. Let’s be a real girl.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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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 hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don’t relate to that at all. It isn’t fair! I absolutely live for food.
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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 want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
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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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I like women who like each other and empower each other.
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I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
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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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A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
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I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
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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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My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else’s. That’s my journey.
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Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.
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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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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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