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.
DREW BARRYMOREWhen I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.
DREW BARRYMOREBeing 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.
DREW BARRYMOREWhen 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.’
DREW BARRYMOREThe thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.
DREW BARRYMOREI 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 still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else’s door. Because I don’t want the remnants. I don’t want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.
DREW BARRYMOREI’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 BARRYMOREI’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.
DREW BARRYMOREI just think everything is a learning experience and every moment that you have that actually feels good inside of your heart is an absolute blessing and a gift.
DREW BARRYMOREI think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.
DREW BARRYMORENo 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.
DREW BARRYMOREWhatever I’ve experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I’m proud of that. But it’s someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving… I’m so much about school, consistency and tradition.
DREW BARRYMOREBoth of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don’t be a people pleaser.
DREW BARRYMOREFeeding a child at school is such a simple thing – but it works miracles.
DREW BARRYMOREPeople are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
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.
DREW BARRYMORE