Wit & Attitude Quote by Drew Barrymore

Barrymore’s line reads like a preemptive strike against the most predictable Hollywood narrative: self-care morphing into self-absorption. The phrasing is deliberately plain, almost clunky, and that’s the point. She’s not performing wisdom; she’s drawing a boundary with the kind of blunt language you’d use with yourself at 2 a.m. when you can feel entitlement creeping in.

“I never want to get to the point” signals fear of drift, not a single bad decision. It’s an admission that centripetal celebrity life exists: assistants, schedules, fans, money, and trauma all pulling your attention inward until other people become props. By naming “my needs” so explicitly, she nods to the modern therapeutic vocabulary that encourages listening to yourself, then immediately puts a guardrail on it. The second half, “and the hell with anybody else,” is a deliberately ugly caricature of that vocabulary’s worst outcome. It’s meant to shock, because it’s meant to be recognizable.

The context matters: Barrymore is a child-star survivor who grew up in public, with addiction and reinvention as part of her biography. That history makes her suspicion of self-centeredness feel less like moral posturing and more like hard-won strategy. She’s selling a model of adulthood where boundaries don’t require cruelty, where “taking care of yourself” doesn’t become an excuse to abandon community, co-workers, or family. In an era that rewards personal branding and main-character energy, she’s arguing for a quieter kind of strength: staying porous to other people without disappearing into them.