The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn’t even know how to boil an egg.
DREW BARRYMOREIf I ever start talking to you about my ‘craft’, my ‘instrument’, you have permission to shoot me.
More Drew Barrymore Quotes
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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.
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I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I’m terribly self conscious.
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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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There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let’s get down and dirty. Let’s be a real girl.
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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.
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No 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.
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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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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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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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I never act my characters – I am them.
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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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The 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.
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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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I like women who like each other and empower each other.
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I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
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