Drew Barrymore Quotes

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. ~ Drew Barrymore

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

Don't show your flaws. ~ Drew Barrymore

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. ~ Drew Barrymore

I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance. ~ 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

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever. ~ Drew Barrymore

I don't want to be stinky poo-poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. ~ Drew Barrymore

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day. ~ 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

But it's all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing. ~ Drew Barrymore

If you are going to go through hell ... I suggest you come back learning something. ~ 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 can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make. ~ 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

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

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

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

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over. ~ 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 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 always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods. ~ Drew Barrymore

I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore. ~ Vanessa Hudgens

You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class. ~ Drew Barrymore

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength. ~ Drew Barrymore

What's helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give. ~ Drew Barrymore

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person. ~ Drew Barrymore

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting. ~ Drew Barrymore

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 am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things off. I have totally emotional days when I cry and get insecure. PMS weirded out, doomed and tragic. I mean, I'm definitely not just a lollipop, happy in the wind girl. I'm human just like everyone else, but I think that it would be tragic to be on your deathbed and think, 'I could've I should've.' That gets me out of bed everyday. I can't even last like an hour in bed in the morning. I have to get out there and live. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through, too. ~ 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 never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. ~ Drew Barrymore

We work long hours, but we are laughing most of the time, and that's where my other valuable lesson came from: to feel blessed and recognize that working with people you like will make you want to work more! Everyone wears many hats and we all like to do many different things at our company. We all dream stuff up, but more important, we find ways to make it a reality. ~ Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life. ~ Drew Barrymore

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked. ~ Drew Barrymore

When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones back then, we didn't even have cell phones. I loved having a camera in my hand. ~ 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

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

I just think everything is a learning experience and every moment that you have that actually feels good inside of your heart is an absolute blessing and a gift. ~ Drew Barrymore

From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded. ~ Chris Pine

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. ~ 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

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

Speaking of important things, there are so many battles right now that people are fighting for that it's overwhelming, but I am always in favor of people who crusade for the sake of people's hearts and their well-being. That is what is important. ~ Drew Barrymore

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

But in some ways, I'm like an old woman - lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt. ~ 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 want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen. ~ Drew Barrymore

I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it. ~ Drew Barrymore

I know that I won't succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

He is so wonderful. And he is door number one. And I know it. And he's right here. ~ Drew Barrymore

Love is the one uniting, relatable thing in everyone's life. It's what we all want and struggle with and fight for. ~ 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

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

As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever. ~ 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

No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we're really like. I loved Bridesmaids. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time. ~ 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

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 used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it go round and round, and cry. ~ 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

I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful. ~ Drew Barrymore

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker. ~ Drew Barrymore

Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay. ~ Drew Barrymore

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.' ~ Drew Barrymore

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

I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it. ~ Drew Barrymore

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask". I was not afraid to ask. ~ Drew Barrymore

I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before. ~ Steven Spielberg

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity. ~ 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 could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive. ~ Drew Barrymore

What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl." ~ Eva Mendes

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

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 didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe. ~ Drew Barrymore

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me. ~ 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 try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York. ~ Drew Barrymore

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important. ~ Drew Barrymore

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry. ~ Drew Barrymore

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

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry. ~ Vanessa Hudgens