Top 317 Quotes & Sayings by Drew Barrymore

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Drew Barrymore.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Drew Blythe Barrymore is an American actress, producer, talk show host, and author. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and five Emmy Awards. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004.

American - Actress | Born: February 22, 1975

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Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Drew Barrymore

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. 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.

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 guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Drew Barrymore

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

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'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

Drew Barrymore

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

Drew Barrymore

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

Drew Barrymore

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

Drew Barrymore

I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted - there you go, out in the world!

Drew Barrymore

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

Drew Barrymore

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

Drew Barrymore

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

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 regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Drew Barrymore

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Drew Barrymore

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Drew Barrymore

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

Drew Barrymore

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

Drew Barrymore

It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own.

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

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

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

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

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

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Drew Barrymore

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

Drew Barrymore

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through.

Drew Barrymore

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels'.

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

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

Drew Barrymore

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

Drew Barrymore

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Drew Barrymore

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

Drew Barrymore

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

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

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

Drew Barrymore

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

Drew Barrymore

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

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 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

My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

Drew Barrymore