My life is so different than I thought it would be.
DREW BARRYMOREI’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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I don’t even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don’t want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
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I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex – But Were Afraid to Ask”. I was not afraid to ask.
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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 don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
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I was born 10 years old.
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I’m just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
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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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Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You’re very tired, but it’s so wonderful. God, it’s emotional, but it’s the best. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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I wanna smoke pot, but I can’t, cause I’m too paranoid.
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I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.
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When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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I think my whole life, work has been a very important and positive thing for me. It never was something that made me feel unhappy or disengaged from life. It always makes me feel like I’m plugged in, in a really healthy way.
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I’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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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.
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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.
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
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I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don’t need to see everything perfectly. I don’t like it.
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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 think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.
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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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I don’t like working by a monitor. I stand right next to the camera, and I’m very performance-oriented. That really means everything to me, whether it’s doing an improv of a joke or an emotional scene, and everything in between.
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