Drew Barrymore Quotes

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

Drew Barrymore

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • American
  • Political

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Face

• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Wise

• Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Depressing

• I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • City
  • Like
  • Moscow

• I have a strong affinity for animals.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Strong
  • Animals
  • Affinity

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • You
  • Thought

• None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Woods

• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Being
  • Nothing
  • Naked

• Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Earth

• Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Jobs

• People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

  

  John Diamond
  • People
  • Death
  • Perspective

• There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • English
  • Literature
  • Inspired

• The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Coffee
  • Cross
  • Sign

• My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Mother