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 BARRYMOREOh, 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.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I’m very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
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You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
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I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library… beyond that, I’m completely intimidated by it.
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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’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’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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A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
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I was born 10 years old.
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People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
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It’s my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.
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I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.
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I still can’t spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
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I don’t think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What’s the worst that’s going to happen?
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I am not a rodeo clown, like, “Everything is awesome!” I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.
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I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings.
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