Top 250 Drew Barrymore Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “When you become very ill – raise your head. You will definitely see the sunlight.”

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

155. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

157. “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

158. “Everything I do, I do infinite percent.”

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

161. “I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.”

— Drew Barrymore

162. “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

163. “I’m a real stay-at-home mom. I’m really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.”

— Drew Barrymore

164. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

170. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

172. “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

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

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

175. “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

176. “I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.”

— Drew Barrymore

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

— Drew Barrymore

178. “I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don’t accomplish anything. That’s not me at all.”

— Drew Barrymore

179. “I’m a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.”

— Drew Barrymore

180. “I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.”

— Drew Barrymore

181. “I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.”

— Drew Barrymore

182. “I always leave a relationship with a sense of hope.”

— Drew Barrymore

183. “We work long hours, but we are laughing most of the time, and that’s where my other valuable lesson came from: to feel blessed and recognize that working with people you like will make you want to work more! Everyone wears many hats and we all like to do many different things at our company. We all dream stuff up, but more important, we find ways to make it a reality.”

— Drew Barrymore

184. “I love romantic comedies that are set in a world. It’s not just a boy and a girl falling in love, out of love, and back in love.”

— Drew Barrymore

185. “I cry a lot. I’ll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.”

— Drew Barrymore

186. “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

187. “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

188. “Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.”

— Drew Barrymore

189. “You’ve just got to do the best that you can.”

— Drew Barrymore

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

193. “I would love to be a travel writer. I’d be so stoked.”

— Drew Barrymore

194. “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

195. “I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy – you just have to fight those things off. I have totally emotional days when I cry and get insecure. PMS weirded out, doomed and tragic. I mean, I’m definitely not just a lollipop, happy in the wind girl. I’m human just like everyone else, but I think that it would be tragic to be on your deathbed and think, ‘I could’ve I should’ve.’ That gets me out of bed everyday. I can’t even last like an hour in bed in the morning. I have to get out there and live.”

— Drew Barrymore

196. “I’m a carb queen. I’ll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don’t want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!”

— Drew Barrymore

197. “Families in real life don’t tend to resolve things neatly.”

— Drew Barrymore

198. “I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings.”

— Drew Barrymore

199. “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

200. “I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that’s what I would love to do.”

— Drew Barrymore