Top 250 Drew Barrymore Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

159. “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

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

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

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

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

164. “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

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165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

169. “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

170. “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

171. “My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.”

— Drew Barrymore

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

176. “Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.”

— Drew Barrymore

177. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

180. “But it’s all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.”

— Drew Barrymore

181. “I love my life and it takes every step to get to where you are, and if you are happy, then God bless the hard times it took you to get there. No life is without them, so what are yours, and what did you do with the lessons? That is the only way to live.”

— Drew Barrymore

182. “I’m such a workaholic. I’m always thinking about work.”

— Drew Barrymore

183. “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

184. “I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn’t resemble the original dish at all.”

— Drew Barrymore

185. “I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it.”

— Drew Barrymore

186. “I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.”

— Drew Barrymore

187. “Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.”

— Drew Barrymore

188. “I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.”

— Drew Barrymore

189. “I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.”

— Drew Barrymore

190. “I don’t like working by a monitor. I stand right next to the camera, and I’m very performance-oriented. That really means everything to me, whether it’s doing an improv of a joke or an emotional scene, and everything in between.”

— Drew Barrymore

191. “You can’t treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that’s such a different approach.”

— Drew Barrymore

192. “I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.”

— Drew Barrymore

193. “A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never be taken for granted! I am lucky that I got dealt some cards that showed me what it’s like to not have family, and I am much luckier to now have the chance to create my own deck!”

— Drew Barrymore

194. “He is so wonderful. And he is door number one. And I know it. And he’s right here.”

— Drew Barrymore

195. “I’m just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.”

— Drew Barrymore

196. “I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.”

— Drew Barrymore

197. “I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.”

— Drew Barrymore

198. “The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can’t take myself too seriously.”

— Drew Barrymore

199. “I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted – there you go, out in the world!”

— Drew Barrymore

200. “If you’re 35 and single and it’s a choice, it feels fine. So I didn’t settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!”

— Drew Barrymore