He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.


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You've just got to do the best that you can.
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I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being com...
DREW BARRYMORE
I get to be a kid now, because I wasn't a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I'm l...
DREW BARRYMORE
I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on g...
DREW BARRYMORE
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
ETHEL BARRYMORE
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE
For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
ETHEL BARRYMORE
Deep Are the Roots.
ETHEL BARRYMORE
I was obsessed with him. I wouldn't leave his side for a second.
DREW BARRYMORE
It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
DREW BARRYMORE
I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason -...
DREW BARRYMORE
We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's bein...
DREW BARRYMORE
A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
DREW BARRYMORE
And now they are making claims about my behavior, which is outrageous. This family obviously has a c...
DREW BARRYMORE
I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal,
DREW BARRYMORE
The family making this claim were constantly taking pictures of me. And I politely asked them to sto...
DREW BARRYMORE
There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and ...
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...
DREW BARRYMORE