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.
DREW BARRYMOREBeing 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.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I wanna smoke pot, but I can’t, cause I’m too paranoid.
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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 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 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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My life is so different than I thought it would be.
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I always leave a relationship with a sense of hope.
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I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
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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 don’t really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
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I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we’re excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
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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 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 am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.
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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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Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It’s about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
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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.
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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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I’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.
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I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.
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I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
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Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing – but it works miracles.
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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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I know that I won’t succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.
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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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When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
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