I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
DREW BARRYMOREI 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.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don’t be a people pleaser.
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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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I’ve always said that one night, I’m going to find myself in some field somewhere, I’m standing on grass, and it’s raining, and I’m with the person I love, and I know I’m at the very point I’ve been dreaming of getting to.
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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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You know you’re putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.
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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’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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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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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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No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we’re really like. I loved ‘Bridesmaids’. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time.
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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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If I ever start talking to you about my ‘craft’, my ‘instrument’, you have permission to shoot me.
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There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let’s get down and dirty. Let’s be a real girl.
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Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
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