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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 Barrymore

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don’t be a people pleaser.
DREW BARRYMORE

Lessons Marriage People
I’ve got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That’s a relationship that works.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dog Pet Work Years
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we’re excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
DREW BARRYMORE

Artist Dating Thinking
Beauty is so within. I don’t care if you’re the most attractive person on the planet…if you’re not good inside, it will show. You fall in love with people from the inside out.
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Beauty Fall Good Love People Planet
I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
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Good Happen Things Want
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 BARRYMORE

Kids Powerful Thinking
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
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Cute Kissing Octopus
I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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Country People Trying Wife
What’s helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.
DREW BARRYMORE

Friend Friendship Giving Good
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

God Makeup Swearing Thinking
I don’t think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What’s the worst that’s going to happen?
DREW BARRYMORE

Life People Short Thinking
My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else’s. That’s my journey.
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Choices Gateways Journey
I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.
DREW BARRYMORE

Lesson Life Mistakes Past
One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It’s an item that could make you believe you’re in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.
DREW BARRYMORE

Believe Rocks Thinking
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Grateful Inspirational Kings
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Passion Pride Spiritual
Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they’re dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it’ll make it better.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dying Flower Helping
I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.
DREW BARRYMORE

Actors Eye Thinking
A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
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Imperfection Meaningful Pages
When I did ‘E.T.,’ it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of ‘This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I’m going to survive.’
DREW BARRYMORE

Film Gypsy Solidification Want
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Kissing Looks Trying
I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it’s important to seek out that reason – that’s how we learn.
DREW BARRYMORE

Believe Everything Happens Reason Thinking
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Growing Safe Tables Up
I am not a rodeo clown, like, “Everything is awesome!” I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.
DREW BARRYMORE

Clown Rodeo Struggled Worked
Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don’t know if I’m sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I’m a bit on my own and that’s a very disheartening feeling.
DREW BARRYMORE

Feelings Sexy Thinking
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Alive Marrow Planets
Sometimes you come to a point where there’s nothing more you can do. You love and respect each other, but it’s not working. So you amicably decide to part. I don’t know what the future holds: a lot of people get back together after they break up.
DREW BARRYMORE

People Sometimes Together

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