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"She&amp;apos;s been acting since age 3, hails from a long line of Hollywood legends, and has around 65 acting credits to her name, but Drew Barrymore certainly doesn&amp;apos;t have a high opinion of her dramatic gifts. In a recent New York Times article about the TCM show The Essentials, which she co-hosts with Robert Osborne, the Golden Globe winner, 39, opened up about her career and mentors.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThe pregnant-again star named her E.T. director and godfather Steven Spielberg as her top advisor throughout her career.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;Steven told me, &amp;apos;Don&amp;apos;t act your characters. Be your characters,&amp;quot; Barrymore revealed. She became a breakout child star when she worked with Spielberg on the classic flick at age 6.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t think I&amp;apos;m a good actor,&amp;quot; continued Barrymore, who shares daughter Olive, 17 months, with husband Will Kopelman. &amp;quot;I feel like it&amp;apos;s fake and yucky and it doesn&amp;apos;t ring true. But if you research and you study and make it personal, you just become that person, and it&amp;apos;s your truth and everything else around you falls away. Then you&amp;apos;re telling the truth, it&amp;apos;s not lying, it&amp;apos;s not fake.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAnd the legendary director&amp;apos;s words of wisdom stuck with the Blended actress for the next 33 years.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;At 6, I guess I was comfortable and more humorous than I would have remembered now,&amp;quot; she mused. &amp;quot;But once I got older and kept continuing acting, I don&amp;apos;t know if I would have succeeded without that advice, because that&amp;apos;s the thing that saved me. I&amp;apos;m not an actor, I&amp;apos;m a pretender.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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