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Portrait of Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore

(1975) Autobiographer United States

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Drew Barrymore is an autobiographer from the United States, best known for Wildflower.

Quick Facts About Drew Barrymore

Born: February 22, 1975
Nationality: United States
Profession: Autobiographer
Notable works: Wildflower
Spouse: Tom Green

About Drew Barrymore

Drew Blythe Barrymore is an American actress, producer, talk‑show host and businesswoman from the famous Barrymore acting family. She has earned a Golden Globe, an Emmy and an Actor Award, and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in 2023.

Awards & Honors

Satellite Awards Saturn Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Crystal Award GLAAD Vanguard Award

Quotes by Drew Barrymore · Page 8

I swear to God, with some of these romantic comedies, these women are being shot in the butt with steroids, and I…

Love

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I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless.…

Beauty

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School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies…

Academic

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When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven't…

Business

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When you have a big life change, it takes a long time to get used to either the new format or the…

Change

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I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I…

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When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones…

Camera

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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I…

Action

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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is…

Bicycle

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Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people's anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what…

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I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's…

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I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important…

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I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we…

Art

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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…

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I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going…

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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance…

Battle

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You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving…

Approach

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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…

Beauty

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I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.…

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My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I'm not comfortable being that…

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I don't have a long, drawn-out Joan Crawford beauty routine. I'm not like, "Yes, I wake up and first I put ice…

Beauty

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I think my whole life, work has been a very important and positive thing for me. It never was something that made…

Health

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I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with…

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I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself…

Afterlife

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Just when you think you're hitting your stride someone will shout "cut" and ask you to move your head to the left.…

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I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is…

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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…

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I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic…

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I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into…

Art

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Falling in love with yourself is kind of interesting. You put so much stock into other people and then youre like, Im…

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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,…

Dreaming

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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row…

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I should attempt to write a love song, I have written lots of poetry about love so I could turn those into…

Beach

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I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make…

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You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and…

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I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes.…

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At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is…

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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,…

Dictionary

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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I…

Action

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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…

Camera

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