Drew Barrymore quotes

I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family
-- Drew Barrymore

#Growing Up #Gay #Who I Am

Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Cooking #Kitchen #Recipes

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Thinking

I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Nice #People #Cooking

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

#Inspirational #Life #Strength

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

#Eggs #Faces #Firsts

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

#Imperfection #Endurance #Hell

I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Struggle #Uber #Track

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

#Beautiful #Good Night #Imperfection

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

#Daughter #Wife #Focus

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

#Inspirational #Regret #Details

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

#Tired #Emotional #Parent

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

#Beautiful #Sex #Mean

I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."
-- Drew Barrymore

#Believe #Silly #Night

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

#Happiness #Beauty #Beautiful

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

#Iphone #Phones #Cells

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

#Spiritual #Personality #Lovely

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

#Library #Internet #Savvy

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

#Design #Risk #Pretending

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

#Mean #Kids #Years

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

#Beach #Ocean #Sea

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

#Reality #Stores

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

#Book #Thinking #People

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

#Needs #Want #Hell

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.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Beautiful #Girl #Nice

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Love You #Butterfly #Self Love

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.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Years #Judging #Judgemental

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

#Fun #Optimistic #Dark

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

#Learning #Listening #Want

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Sunshine #Daisies

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Hate #Phones #Voice

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

#Inspirational #Beauty #Clothes

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

#Wine #Makeup

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

#Country #Children #Life Changing

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Acceptance #Complaining #Body

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Years #Ties #Free Spirit

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

I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Dog #Years #Pet

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

#Love #Break Up #Broken Heart

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

#Thinking #Impact #Appearance

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

#Beauty #Beautiful #Self Esteem

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

#Sorry #Imperfection #Parent

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.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Success #Jobs #Congratulations

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
-- Drew Barrymore

#Love #Imperfection #Bird

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

#Children #Thinking #Issues

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

#Girl #Children #Flower

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

#Hurt #People #Want

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

#Cat #Ashes #Want

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

#Girl #Spiritual #California

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

#Crazy #Thinking #Interesting

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

#Adventure #Carpe Diem #Soul

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

#Inspiring #Beauty #Women

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

#Cute #Kissing #Octopus

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

#Book

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'
-- Drew Barrymore

#Passion #Home #The End Of The Day

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Night #Different #Cocktails

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

#Children #School #Simple

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Inspirational #Enjoy Life #Pounds

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Motherhood #Dedication #Focus

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 #Beauty #Fall

I was born 10 years old.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Maturity #Years #Born

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Childhood #Elevators #Stairs

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

#Mother #Father #Mother And Father

I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Lonely #Cry #Streets

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

#Girl #Advice #Survivor

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

#Skills #Eggs #Taste

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

#Photography #Moving #Sound

There's a big world out there. Bigger than prom, bigger than high school, and it won't matter if you were the prom queen or the quarterback of the football team or the biggest nerd. Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Football #Queens #Team

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

#Dream #Believe #I Believe

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Hate #Glasses #Needs

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

#Taken #Blessing #Focus

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

#Fall #Thinking #Imperfection

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

#Grateful #Thinking #Optimism

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

#Fighting #Choices #Happiness Is A Choice

Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don't know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and that's a very disheartening feeling.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Sexy #Thinking #Feelings

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

#Parent #Example #Kind

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Believe #Thinking #Everything Happens For A Reason

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Real #Real Life #Resolve

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Appreciate #Sitting #Littles

I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Enjoy #Glad #Full Life

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

#Names #Ideas

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Sexy #Art #Avid

I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Home #Uptight #Owners

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

#Research #Homework #Persons

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

#Passion #Puppy #Daisies

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

#Kids #Thinking #Names

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

#Hate #Want #I Hate

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

#Too Short

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Two #Dollars #Stills

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'
-- Drew Barrymore

#Burning #Feels #Prove

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

#Shopping #Style #Sun

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

#Eye #Thinking #Actors

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Art #Stars #Real

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

#Mom #Watches #Cry

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

#World

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

#New York #Wife #Trying

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

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

#Home #Kids #Wonderful

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

#Sweet #Horror #Film

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

#Powerful #Heart #Thinking