Drew Barrymore has a new movie coming out with Adam Sandler, which… I mean, the movie (Blended) doesn’t look good or anything, but I think it’s kind of cool that Adam and Drew are still tight, that they enjoy working together and I enjoy the fact that they both seem like real people. I mean, every woman has had a Drew in their life. Some hippie, flowery girl who loves love and has her heart in the right place. And most people have an Adam Sandler in their lives too: the dude’s dude with all the friends, the guy that just seems down-to-earth. Anyway, to promote the movie, Drew covers the new issue of Redbook. For the past few years, I’ve been skipping Drew’s interviews, but I liked this one. Some highlights:

Drew Barrymore on being surprised that her husband chose her instead of a long, tall Upper East Side lady:
“I would love to have long, thin arms, I really would ­ but I don¹t. I can run a company, so maybe I am just going to have fatter arms and run a company wearing sleeves? That is my balance; nobody gets to have it all. I would take wearing sleeves and running a company. Not that running a company is the key to happiness, but while I may not be tall and thin, I am capable. Will [being with me], it does surprise me and it doesn¹t surprise me. However, knowing his personality and what he finds humorous and attractive and appealing, I¹m like, ‘Okay, got it!'”

On raising her daughters to understand responsibility:
“I would really like to raise kids to do summer jobs and intern, and understand that if you are supposed to be somewhere at 3 o¹clock, you need to be there at 3 o¹clock.”

On making time for her girlfriends:
“I fight to carve out the time. My friends are such a priority because they were what I had for most of my life. We are really close. I wish we could play more often, but everyone is so busy it¹s insane. But to go over to each other’s houses on a Sunday to check-in, just get on the phone and talk: ‘How are you? Do you need anything?’ Really trying to be there is important. If I was ever in a bind, no one on the planet would have my back more than my friends.”

Drew on Adam Sandler, her co-star in Blended (in theaters May 2014):
“Some comedians are really dark in person, and that¹s heartbreaking. Adam is a genuinely nice, positive person. He doesn¹t have a mean-spiritedness to his comedy or to his nature. We both really care about goodness.”

[From Redbook]

Drew’s husband, Will, is really rich (family money), and Drew is quite wealthy in her own right (although she’s more self-made than Will). Do you think Drew’s kids will really work summer jobs and internships and know the value of a dollar? I have to think that there’s a happy medium for rich parents to teach their kids about money, something in between “utterly spoiled” and “Warren Buffett not giving his children anything but an education.”

I really like what Drew says about “nobody gets to have it all.” It’s true. Everybody has something they don’t like about themselves, every person covets some trait that they see in someone else. I too would love naturally thin arms. And thinner thighs.

Photos courtesy of Redbook.