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I’d definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child’s dreams. I’d just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do… I think I’d be a good parent, actually.

Drew Barrymore

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 BARRYMORE

Angel Day Men One
I’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
DREW BARRYMORE

Homework Littles Tracy
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Lobster Mind Ocean
I’m just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
DREW BARRYMORE

Different Function Relationship
When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven’t figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.
DREW BARRYMORE

Children Conviction Relationship Romantic
Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn’t mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.
DREW BARRYMORE

Fall Mean Motivational Potholes
I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
DREW BARRYMORE

Imperfection Mind People
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
I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won’t be able to get to know someone another way.
DREW BARRYMORE

Eye Hippie Mean
But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
DREW BARRYMORE

Done T-shirt Way Woman
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Eggs Faces Firsts
I’m certainly not an uptight home owner.
DREW BARRYMORE

Home Owners Uptight
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
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Balance Life Lines Work
I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
DREW BARRYMORE

Home Kids Wonderful
I think video village is bullshit. It’s like it’s a breeding ground for people to nitpick and feel important. It’s just such a weird dynamic.
DREW BARRYMORE

Bullshit People Thinking

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