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 BARRYMOREI decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
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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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When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
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I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
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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 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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Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.
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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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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 really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
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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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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 always leave a relationship with a sense of hope.
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I’m a real stay-at-home mom. I’m really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
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I’ve got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That’s a relationship that works.
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Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don’t know if I’m sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I’m a bit on my own and that’s a very disheartening feeling.
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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’ve been producing for 13 years. I’ve made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.
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I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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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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Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
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I’d rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
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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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My life is so different than I thought it would be.
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I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.
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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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