Top 250 Drew Barrymore Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

105. “I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that’s not just physically, it’s psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.”

— Drew Barrymore

106. “Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.”

— Drew Barrymore

107. “Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.”

— Drew Barrymore

108. “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

109. “I like women who like each other and empower each other.”

— Drew Barrymore

110. “It’s my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.”

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

112. “I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.”

— Drew Barrymore

113. “My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”

— Drew Barrymore

114. “And people say it all the time: ‘You’re a celebrity.’ No, I’m an actor. I’m a producer. I’m a director. I’m a toad. I’m roadkill. I’m anything but a celebrity.”

— Drew Barrymore

115. “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

116. “People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.”

— Drew Barrymore

117. “The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.”

— Drew Barrymore

118. “I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone’s personality. It’s a very lovely concept.”

— Drew Barrymore

119. “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

120. “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

121. “I’ve never dated anybody older, actually. There are so many things I’m curious about, and I’d love to be able to say, “Teach me.” I want to learn from the people around me.”

— Drew Barrymore

122. “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

123. “I’d rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.”

— Drew Barrymore

124. “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

125. “I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!”

— Drew Barrymore

126. “I don’t like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.”

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

128. “It’s embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I’m glad I did.”

— Drew Barrymore

129. “I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is ‘How much more are you capable of?’”

— Drew Barrymore

130. “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

131. “I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.”

— Drew Barrymore

132. “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

133. “I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I’m terribly self conscious.”

— Drew Barrymore

134. “Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people’s anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what fails to happen is that you actually aren’t disseminating the information that you want to get across to these people.”

— Drew Barrymore

135. “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

136. “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

137. “I’m a very research-, homework-oriented person.”

— Drew Barrymore

138. “I think happiness is what makes you pretty.”

— Drew Barrymore

139. “I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn’t have it growing up.”

— Drew Barrymore

140. “I think a any person who has a high profile job or who travels all the time or who has a lot of stress associated with their job can be difficult to be in a relationship with.”

— Drew Barrymore

141. “You know you’re putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.”

— Drew Barrymore

142. “I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make.”

— Drew Barrymore

143. “I never act my characters – I am them.”

— Drew Barrymore

144. “I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.”

— Drew Barrymore

145. “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

146. “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

147. “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

148. “I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we’re excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.”

— Drew Barrymore

149. “I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.”

— Drew Barrymore

150. “Once you’ve been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.”

— Drew Barrymore