I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,’ which is what happened when we did ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.
DREW BARRYMOREI’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.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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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.
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I’d rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
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I’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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It’s my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.
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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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I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else’s door. Because I don’t want the remnants. I don’t want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.
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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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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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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.
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I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.
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The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn’t even know how to boil an egg.
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I still can’t spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
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But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
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