HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Drew Barrymore can't seem to get enough of her on-again, off-again boyfriend of three years, Justin Long.
"He's the cat's pajamas," the 35-year-old actress tells Harper Bazaar. "I couldn't love, respect, admire, and enjoy that individual more than I do. It would be physically impossible for me to have any more giggly joy at this person."
While she admires her Going the Distance costar, Barrymore says being in a relationship is far from a necessity.
"I'm really good on my own," she says. "I was good in my early teens, and then I got really bad at being alone for like 10 years. And then for the last decade I've developed such a love of my independence that I have to go, Okay, you've had dinner by yourself three nights in a row, now you have to see your friends."
"I just want balance," she continues. "I think my life has been extremely inconsistent. It just makes me more passionate about it...I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives."
Having endured so many highs and lows over the course of her storied career, Barrymore has a desire to share her experiences with others.
"Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker," she says. "I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes. Sometimes I fall so goddamn deep, I've got broken legs and I have to mend myself in the well and crawl back out."
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