Top 250 Drew Barrymore Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

107. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

111. “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

112. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

138. “It’s the worst when you’re kissing someone who’s not a good kisser, and you’re trying to make it look good, but you feel like you’re just working on your own.”

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

140. “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

141. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

143. “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

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144. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

146. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

149. “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

150. “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