Drew Barrymore Quotes & Sayings

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person. — Drew Barrymore

I don't cook, I can't cook, and it is really abominable to see me in the kitchen. I order in takeaway food or get my friends to cook because a lot of them are very good. — Drew Barrymore

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do. — Drew Barrymore

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. — Drew Barrymore

I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'? — Drew Barrymore

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have. — Drew Barrymore

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing. — Drew Barrymore

You've just got to do the best that you can. — Drew Barrymore

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach. — Drew Barrymore

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention. — Drew Barrymore

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand. — Drew Barrymore

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. — Drew Barrymore

If you are going to go through hell ... I suggest you come back learning something. — Drew Barrymore

Beauty is so within. I don't care if you're the most attractive person on the planet ... if you're not good inside, it will show. You fall in love with people from the inside out. — Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. — Drew Barrymore

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting. — Drew Barrymore

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. And now I've stopped believing in happy endings and I've started believing in good days. — Drew Barrymore

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe. — Drew Barrymore

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent. — Drew Barrymore

My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship. — Drew Barrymore

I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths! — Drew Barrymore

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world. — Drew Barrymore

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing. — Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. — Drew Barrymore

The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them? — Drew Barrymore

I may not have done it with grace, but I fought my way into something better and more enlightened ... My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends. — Drew Barrymore

Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends. — Drew Barrymore

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. — Drew Barrymore

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy. — Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library ... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it. — Drew Barrymore

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York. — Drew Barrymore

I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place. — Drew Barrymore

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser. — Drew Barrymore

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death. — Drew Barrymore

In general, people are true to their signs. — Drew Barrymore

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other. — Drew Barrymore

to feel blessed and recognize that working with people you like will make you want to work more! — Drew Barrymore

We can't take a step backwards when we've already made so many strides forward. I was raised by gay men and women ... it's who I am, you cannot define a family. There are children out there who need these loving homes. These are rights that are fundamental and must be had. And I will fight for however long it takes; I don't want to live in a world where prop 8 exists! — Drew Barrymore

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. — Drew Barrymore

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do ... I think I'd be a good parent, actually. — Drew Barrymore

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. — Drew Barrymore

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race. — Drew Barrymore

I think a any person who has a high profile job or who travels all the time or who has a lot of stress associated with their job can be difficult to be in a relationship with. — Drew Barrymore

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time. — Drew Barrymore

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance. — Drew Barrymore

And maybe now it's about telling the occasional story that I recently believe in and think would be good to put out there into the world. But I look back, that crying taught me how to approach everything in life. Acting or Otherwise. — Drew Barrymore

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way. — Drew Barrymore

You can never, never have too many books — Drew Barrymore

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up. — Drew Barrymore

You know you're putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter. — Drew Barrymore

When [my friend] had her kid, she was like, "9:30?! I'm not living in Barcelona. I need dinner at 6." I never got that until now. Four years ago, when I met her, I thought that was extreme. I was like, "I love Barcelona!" Now, I'm so mad when someone suggests an 8 pm reservation because that means we won't eat until 8:30 or 9 pm. Forget it! — Drew Barrymore

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect. — Drew Barrymore

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to. — Drew Barrymore

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example. — Drew Barrymore

You know, being single is great! I don't know why we treat it like some disease we are trying to cure with a remedy of 'where is he'. I like being alone. — Drew Barrymore

Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it. — Drew Barrymore

I don't like working by a monitor. I stand right next to the camera, and I'm very performance-oriented. That really means everything to me, whether it's doing an improv of a joke or an emotional scene, and everything in between. — Drew Barrymore

The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg. — Drew Barrymore

When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.' — Drew Barrymore

And we were making a film I truly believed in, and the message of the film is "How do you make love stay?" Because it doesn't matter if someone has a memory or not, you have to reinvent love every day. — Drew Barrymore

Everything I do, I do infinite percent. — Drew Barrymore

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable. — Drew Barrymore

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word. — Drew Barrymore

I always leave a relationship with a sense of hope. — Drew Barrymore

Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny. — Drew Barrymore

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself. — Drew Barrymore

I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them. — Drew Barrymore

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. — Drew Barrymore

I believe you can be the person that you dream of being — Drew Barrymore

I find a lot of really hot people to be extremely boring because they haven't had to work at it. — Drew Barrymore

My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else. — Drew Barrymore

I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle. — Drew Barrymore

I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen? — Drew Barrymore

I do everything in this life-or-death way. — Drew Barrymore

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did. — Drew Barrymore

Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You're very tired, but it's so wonderful. God, it's emotional, but it's the best. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. — Drew Barrymore

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself. — Drew Barrymore

I never act my characters - I am them. — Drew Barrymore

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me. — Drew Barrymore

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all. — Drew Barrymore

If you're 35 and single and it's a choice, it feels fine. So I didn't settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal! — Drew Barrymore

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. — Drew Barrymore

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't. — Drew Barrymore

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else. — Drew Barrymore

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. — Drew Barrymore

A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never be taken for granted! I am lucky that I got dealt some cards that showed me what it's like to not have family, and I am much luckier to now have the chance to create my own deck! — Drew Barrymore

I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make. — Drew Barrymore

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me. — Drew Barrymore

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup. — Drew Barrymore

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work. — Drew Barrymore

I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.' — Drew Barrymore

If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him. — Drew Barrymore

I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food. — Drew Barrymore

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor. — Drew Barrymore

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. — Drew Barrymore

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis, — Drew Barrymore

Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles. — Drew Barrymore

I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. If somebody walks in the room and they're drop-dead gorgeous and sexy, it's really fun to look at. But if someone is giving of their spirit and they make you laugh and feel good, that's a whole other level of beauty. — Drew Barrymore

I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue. — Drew Barrymore

I feel like I was born the day my kids were and that my life before was only there to gain wisdom for them. The point is you do your best. Your very best every day. You do it and you do it for them! — Drew Barrymore