Drew Barrymore Quotes

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• Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
• Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
• 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 am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
• I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
• I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it’s important to seek out that reason – that’s how we learn.
• I definitely don’t think that I’m hot doo-doo. I 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.
• I don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
• I get to be a kid now, because I wasn’t a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I’m like an old woman-lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
• 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’?
• I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.
• I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.
• I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
• I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
• 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.
• 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.
• I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it.
• 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.
• I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
• I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
• I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
• 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.
• 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’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’ve been a vegetarian for years and years. I’m not judgmental about others who aren’t, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
• 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.
• If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.
• It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
• Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
• 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.
• Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
• Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
• My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It’s the most liberating thing in the world.
• Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
• Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
• There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
• 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.
• When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
• 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.
• You’ve just got to do the best that you can.
• 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’?
• There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
• If I ever start talking to you about my ‘craft’, my ‘instrument’, you have permission to shoot me.
• I believe in fate. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it’s important to seek out that reason – that’s how you learn.
• I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.
• 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.
• Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe; then I wash my face and check my karma.
• Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
• I love levity. As crazy as I am, I just love to laugh!
• I’m getting older so those dark circles are really starting to show. Now, I’m starting to look like Night of the Living Dead.
• 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.
• There’s nothing like the power of a smile.
• I’d rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
• I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
• My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It’s the most liberating thing in the world.