Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore

"Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable."
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"Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable."
Drew Barrymore
"My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now."
Drew Barrymore
"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."
Drew Barrymore
"I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person."
Drew Barrymore
"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."
Drew Barrymore
"I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table."
Drew Barrymore
"I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it go round and round, and cry."
Drew Barrymore
"I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary."
Drew Barrymore
"Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes."
Drew Barrymore
"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."
Drew Barrymore
"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."
Drew Barrymore
"I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life."
Drew Barrymore
"I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked."
Drew Barrymore
"I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word."
Drew Barrymore
"There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself."
Drew Barrymore
"Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle."
Drew Barrymore
"I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through, too."
Drew Barrymore
"I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else."
Drew Barrymore
"If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something."
Drew Barrymore
"It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning."
Drew Barrymore
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