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A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.


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DREW BARRYMORE When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, be...
DREW BARRYMORE I think I have a love for TV hosts. I can't help it. Ted Koppel was my first crush when I was three....
DREW BARRYMORE I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best p...
DREW BARRYMORE God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided fo...
DREW BARRYMORE I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
DREW BARRYMORE There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to ge...
DREW BARRYMORE Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
DREW BARRYMORE I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
DREW BARRYMORE Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
DREW BARRYMORE There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
DREW BARRYMORE I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
DREW BARRYMORE I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't kno...
DREW BARRYMORE I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it.
DREW BARRYMORE I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.
DREW BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the wor...
DREW BARRYMORE If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day ...
DREW BARRYMORE It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I w...
DREW BARRYMORE I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generall...
DREW BARRYMORE I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not m...
DREW BARRYMORE I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pub...
DREW BARRYMORE I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to se...
DREW BARRYMORE I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for...
DREW BARRYMORE A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.
DREW BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navi...
BARRYMORE TEBBS My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
DREW BARRYMORE I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.
DREW BARRYMORE The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What...
DREW BARRYMORE Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.
DREW BARRYMORE Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to h...
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