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 BARRYMOREI really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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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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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 very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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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.
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I never act my characters – I am them.
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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 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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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.
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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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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.
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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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But it’s all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.
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I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
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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.
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