Top 250 Drew Barrymore Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I think there’s a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. It kills girls inside when they think they’re letting their mothers down.”

— Drew Barrymore

52. “I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.”

— Drew Barrymore

53. “I don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.”

— Drew Barrymore

54. “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

55. “I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It’s such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it’s about this great sort of camaraderie.”

— Drew Barrymore

56. “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

57. “This dramatic, hearty flower with its deep maroon made me so happy. I was so in love with its color, and it taught me that beauty could live in a seedy area. Not only live but also be strong!”

— Drew Barrymore

58. “I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.”

— Drew Barrymore

59. “I no longer have the fear of being alone. It’s cool to find out that you don’t need a boyfriend to be happy.”

— Drew Barrymore

60. “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

61. “I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.”

— Drew Barrymore

62. “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

63. “I think I’m moody because I’m a woman. I can ask any man in this room, like women are just inherently like, moody or hormonal people. I don’t know how men deal with it. I praise them.”

— Drew Barrymore

64. “There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.”

— Drew Barrymore

65. “From my perspective, there’s no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you’re lucky! The alternative is death.”

— Drew Barrymore

66. “I’m such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.”

— Drew Barrymore

67. “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

68. “My therapist says I still haven’t got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I’m going to explode. But I’m still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I’m on now.”

— Drew Barrymore

69. “My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else’s. That’s my journey.”

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

71. “Women shouldn’t be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.”

— Drew Barrymore

72. “When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.”

— Drew Barrymore

73. “I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.”

— Drew Barrymore

74. “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

75. “I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.”

— Drew Barrymore

76. “I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.”

— Drew Barrymore

77. “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

78. “Just when you think you’re hitting your stride someone will shout “cut” and ask you to move your head to the left. It’s such an awkward process. You try to make it passionate but it ends up being mechanical.”

— Drew Barrymore

79. “Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, ‘You’re not a father.’ I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.”

— Drew Barrymore

80. “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

81. “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

82. “I loved Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film” – it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you’re a kid watching that stuff on television you’re like, “Well, we are opening up as a society!””

— Drew Barrymore

83. “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

84. “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

85. “I don’t cook, I can’t cook, and it is really abominable to see me in the kitchen. I order in takeaway food or get my friends to cook because a lot of them are very good.”

— Drew Barrymore

86. “It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”

— Drew Barrymore

87. “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

88. “To be honest, I don’t have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.”

— Drew Barrymore

89. “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

90. “I feel like I was born the day my kids were and that my life before was only there to gain wisdom for them. The point is you do your best. Your very best every day. You do it and you do it for them!”

— Drew Barrymore

91. “Celebrity! It’s become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.”

— Drew Barrymore

92. “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

93. “I wanna smoke pot, but I can’t, cause I’m too paranoid.”

— Drew Barrymore

94. “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

95. “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.”

— Drew Barrymore

96. “I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.”

— Drew Barrymore

97. “One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It’s an item that could make you believe you’re in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.”

— Drew Barrymore

98. “The more you do speak from the heart, rather than thumping the agenda, people will listen or relate or open themselves up more.”

— Drew Barrymore

99. “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

100. “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