I was raised in that generation where it was all ‘Women can have it all!’ and I don’t think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important.
If you’re going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.
When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven’t figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.
The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn’t want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.
I never act my characters – I am them.
I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
I’m just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted – there you go, out in the world!
To be honest, I don’t have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.
I definitely don’t think that I’m hot doo-doo. I don’t.
I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
I’m so in control of my life, you shouldn’t dislike anything I do-because I’m not only in the best place I’ve ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.
It’s the worst when you’re kissing someone who’s not a good kisser, and you’re trying to make it look good, but you feel like you’re just working on your own.
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.
My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It’s the most liberating thing in the world.
My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I’m not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don’t feel like a woman. I wonder when that moment’s going to hit.
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It’s about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it.
Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.