Drew Barrymore Quotes

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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Long Matter Reality
If I ever start talking to you about my ‘craft’, my ‘instrument’, you have permission to shoot me.
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Crafts Permission Talking
I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
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Away Blown People Want
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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Messages Romance Years
Sometimes you come to a point where there’s nothing more you can do. You love and respect each other, but it’s not working. So you amicably decide to part. I don’t know what the future holds: a lot of people get back together after they break up.
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People Sometimes Together
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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Believe Rocks Thinking
I’ve always said that one night, I’m going to find myself in some field somewhere, I’m standing on grass, and it’s raining, and I’m with the person I love, and I know I’m at the very point I’ve been dreaming of getting to.
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Dream Love Night Perrson Rain
I’m not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.
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Plates Spinning Struggle Uber
Whether you’re throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don’t trust women who don’t go to their girlfriends.
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Girlfriend Throwing Up Want
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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Balance Life Lines Work
I 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.
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Imperfection Mind People
I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won’t be able to get to know someone another way.
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Eye Hippie Mean
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.
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Eggs Faces Firsts
Whatever 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.
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Believe Charitable School Work
Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing – but it works miracles.
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Children School Simple
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.
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Children Conviction Relationship Romantic
Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don’t be a people pleaser.
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Lessons Marriage People
I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.
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Love Romance Valentine's Day
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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Passion Pride Spiritual
My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else’s. That’s my journey.
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Choices Gateways Journey
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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Lobster Mind Ocean
I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn’t have it growing up.
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Big Families Growing Husband Up
I 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.
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Doors Morning Pigs
I never act my characters – I am them.
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Character never People
I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,’ which is what happened when we did ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.
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Angel Day Men One
I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.
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Life Regret Whatsoever
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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Done T-shirt Way Woman

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