Drew Barrymore Quotes (48 Quotes)


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

    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.

    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'

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

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



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

    That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time.

    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.

    Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time

    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.

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

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

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

    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.

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

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


    I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

    Angelina has my hugest respect and I actually called her and asked her for advice when I was going on this trip and she was very kind. I just think that the work that she does is absolutely inspiring.

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

    I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.


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

    Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

    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.

    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.


    And now they are making claims about my behavior, which is outrageous. This family obviously has a chip on their shoulder and another thought should not be wasted on this.

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

    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.

    If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

    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.

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

    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.

    We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

    There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

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

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

    I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.


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

    I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

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

    There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.

    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.

    I wanted to go to Africa because I read an article in the New York Times about education becoming free in certain parts of Africa and how the classrooms were sort of bursting at the seams because so many kids wanted to go. I thought that was so extraordinary that I wanted to see and experience what that was like and to sort of go down there and touch and feel and taste that world.



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