Top 250 Drew Barrymore Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I’m dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.”

— Drew Barrymore

203. “Girls want to be with guys who have a sense of humor-it makes them far more attractive to us.”

— Drew Barrymore

204. “I’ve been producing for 13 years. I’ve made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.”

— Drew Barrymore

205. “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

206. “I can’t think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.”

— Drew Barrymore

207. “I’m so in control of my life, you shouldn’t dislike anything I do-because I’m not only in the best place I’ve ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.”

— Drew Barrymore

208. “The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?”

— Drew Barrymore

209. “The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn’t want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.”

— Drew Barrymore

210. “But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.”

— Drew Barrymore

211. “I am strong. I have learned. I love Love and have plenty to give. It is my powerful destiny that I am supposed to raise two good girls into two great women! All right. Here we go, my beautiful little girls. Here we go.”

— Drew Barrymore

212. “I don’t really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.”

— Drew Barrymore

213. “I don’t think that I have any musical talent.”

— Drew Barrymore

214. “Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn’t mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.”

— Drew Barrymore

215. “It’s ironic that we rush through being “single” as if it’s some disease or malady to get rid of or overcome. The truth is, most likely, one day you will meet someone and it will be gone. And once it’s gone, it’s really gone! Why does no one tell us how important it is to enjoy being single and being by yourself? That time is defining and amazing and nothing to “sure”. It is being alone that will actually set you up the best for being with someone else.”

— Drew Barrymore

216. “I’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.”

— Drew Barrymore

217. “There’s a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there’s no person I’m going to push to the side to get where I’m going. I want to create my own road.”

— Drew Barrymore

218. “When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven’t figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.”

— Drew Barrymore

219. “Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.”

— Drew Barrymore

220. “Nobdoy is solid and perfect all of the time.”

— Drew Barrymore

221. “I’ve approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.”

— Drew Barrymore

222. “We may not be able to do them all, but it is a safe place to dream. And sometimes, if you really work hard enough, dreams come true.”

— Drew Barrymore

223. “It was bold, but I have always been a “you only live once, so let your love show and takes risks” kind of person.”

— Drew Barrymore

224. “My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.”

— Drew Barrymore

225. “I still can’t spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.”

— Drew Barrymore

226. “I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.”

— Drew Barrymore

227. “In general, people are true to their signs.”

— Drew Barrymore

228. “I’m certainly not an uptight home owner.”

— Drew Barrymore

229. “I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.”

— Drew Barrymore

230. “My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.”

— Drew Barrymore

231. “I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn’t be one for kids – is the worry that ‘my parents wont be there.’”

— Drew Barrymore

232. “I was in a very free state in my life. This is something I struggle with as a mom because now that I have grown up, I couldn’t feel more passionate about being appropriate. Everything in my world is about being “appropriate.” People ask me, what are you going to tell your daughters about some parts of your life? I don’t want to have to lie, but I am much more invested in telling them how I found my values.”

— Drew Barrymore

233. “Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I’ll want to do?”

— Drew Barrymore

234. “My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn’t. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn’t care for the lifestyle.”

— Drew Barrymore

235. “Love is the one uniting, relatable thing in everyone’s life. It’s what we all want and struggle with and fight for.”

— Drew Barrymore

236. “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve really wanted to find more balance and calm.”

— Drew Barrymore

237. “When you’ve been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn’t have to act perfect all the time.”

— Drew Barrymore

238. “I was born 10 years old.”

— Drew Barrymore

239. “And this filmmaker has the most extraordinary epiphany! He realizes that there is as much merit in trying to ease people’s suffering for a moment as there is in “focusing” on it. To ease someone’s pain through a distracting, silly, joyous laugh is his lesson. I know there is suffering, so to escape it for a second is truly powerful. That is one church I am staying loyal to. The Church of Laughing.”

— Drew Barrymore

240. “I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.”

— Drew Barrymore

241. “Be Aunthentic. Be yourself. And most important of all... make it personal.”

— Drew Barrymore

242. “A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never ever be taken for granted.”

— Drew Barrymore

243. “I want to be with the man who wants to open a movie studio with me and make films for new, fresh filmmakers who aren’t getting a chance somewhere else. I haven’t yet had that type of partnership in a romantic relationship.”

— Drew Barrymore

244. “Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.”

— Drew Barrymore

245. “You know, being single is great! I don’t know why we treat it like some disease we are trying to cure with a remedy of ‘where is he’. I like being alone.”

— Drew Barrymore

246. “People ask me, what are you going to tell your daughters about some parts of your life? I don’t want to have to lie, but I am much more invested in telling them how I found my values.”

— Drew Barrymore

247. “I can tell when an actor’s forcing tears, and it’s tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.”

— Drew Barrymore

248. “And in this new place in my life- I was sleeping alone for over a year, finding the middle of the bed, and really working on myself- I started to become worried about meeting someone because I was really feeling different than I had ever felt in my life. So strong, and I didn’t want anyone to take that away. Someone would have to be the human equivalent of addition and not subtraction. Period.”

— Drew Barrymore

249. “And we were making a film I truly believed in, and the message of the film is “How do you make love stay?” Because it doesn’t matter if someone has a memory or not, you have to reinvent love every day.”

— Drew Barrymore

250. “The house is chaos sometimes when the dogs are trying to eat the kids’ food or jumping into the tub with them. But it’s worth it. Life with dogs is better.”

— Drew Barrymore