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

Drew Barrymore

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
I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don’t feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, ‘We don’t have to feel pain.’ No! Let’s feel it, let’s make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.
DREW BARRYMORE

Ourselves Pain Past Say Want
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Hate Phones Small Voice
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Impressionistic Need Tainted
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Alive Marrow Planets
A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
DREW BARRYMORE

Business Creativity Protection
I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library… beyond that, I’m completely intimidated by it.
DREW BARRYMORE

Internet Library Savvy
Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.
DREW BARRYMORE

Choices Fighting Happiness
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 BARRYMORE

Institutions People Perfect
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Feel Good People Romance
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 try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
DREW BARRYMORE

Country People Trying Wife
I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.
DREW BARRYMORE

Ourselves Butterfly Self Love
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Kids Powerful Thinking
You know you’re putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.
DREW BARRYMORE

Glitter Good Knows Things
I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.
DREW BARRYMORE

Believe Dream Person

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

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