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 BARRYMOREOh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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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.’
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I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.
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I definitely don’t think that I’m hot doo-doo. I don’t.
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I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn’t have it growing up.
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I’ve been producing for 13 years. I’ve made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.
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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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I’ve approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.
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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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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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The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.
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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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I was born 10 years old.
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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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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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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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