Drew Barrymore Quotes

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

- Drew Barrymore

Past, Proud, My Life, Ashamed

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

Through, Like, Before, Unbelievable

California is an unbelievable state.

- Drew Barrymore

California, State, Unbelievable

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

- Drew Barrymore

My Life, Other, Becoming, Rebellious

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

- Drew Barrymore

Happy, Think, I Think, Impact

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

- Drew Barrymore

Profound, Tattoo, Would, Believer

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

- Drew Barrymore

Too Late, Away, Replace, Taken

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

- Drew Barrymore

Cool, Door, Caught, Room Service

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Valentine's Day, Sucker

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

- Drew Barrymore

Yourself, Pretending, About, Liberating

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

- Drew Barrymore

My Life, Childish, I Think, Fantastic

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

Quick, Around, Mum, Hippie

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

- Drew Barrymore

Eyes, Another, Another Way, Hippie

I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

- Drew Barrymore

Home, Owner, Certainly, Uptight

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

- Drew Barrymore

Mother, Never, Very, Reconciled

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Writer, Would, Stoked

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

Love, Fancy, I Remember, Bummed

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

- Drew Barrymore

New York, New, Central, Synagogue

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

Wealth, Waste, Been, Insecure

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

Cards, Waste, Failures, Blaming

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

Book, My Life, I Think, Imperfect

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

Love, My Life, Very, Imperfect

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

Against, Very, Limbs, Voluptuous

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

Love, Dreams, Some, Grass

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

Love, Through, Area, Translation

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

- Drew Barrymore

Happy, Want, Stinky, Flower

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

- Drew Barrymore

Butterflies, Everyone, Like, Graceful

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

- Drew Barrymore

Parent, Think, I Think, Nurture

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

- Drew Barrymore

Journey, My Life, Else, My Journey

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

Enjoy, Before, Settled, Full Life

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

Perfect, Going, Been, Locked

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

- Drew Barrymore

Beautiful, Romantic, Even, Kisses

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

- Drew Barrymore

Regret, Never Regret, Made, In The End

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

- Drew Barrymore

Strength, Some, Very, In The End

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

- Drew Barrymore

Camera, Like, Trickery, Doubles

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

- Drew Barrymore

Die, Young, I Think, Grownup

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

- Drew Barrymore

Stay-At-Home Mom, Became, Secondary

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

- Drew Barrymore

Waves, Like, Maybe, Currents

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

- Drew Barrymore

Get, Few, Parties, Slumber

You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.

- Drew Barrymore

Perfect, Maybe, About, Perfection

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

- Drew Barrymore

Perfect, Next, Tell, Versus

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

- Drew Barrymore

Thought, About, Rocker, Exhibitionist

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

- Drew Barrymore

Been, Anybody, Perfectly, Paved

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

- Drew Barrymore

Life, My Life, Revelations, To Survive

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.

- Drew Barrymore

Beauty, Some, Romance, Pouring

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker.

- Drew Barrymore

Out, Been, Put, Spaces

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

- Drew Barrymore

Voice, Small, Mail, Answering

I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted - there you go, out in the world!

- Drew Barrymore

Go, Feel, Like, Womb

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

Father, Invest, Dad, Birthdays

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.

- Drew Barrymore

Own, Tell, Wear, Body Image

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

Some, Away, I Think, Psychologically

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Had, Certainly, Long-Distance

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

Queen, Fancy, Always, Possibly

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

Think, Very, Which, Passing

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

- Drew Barrymore

Want, Expect, Away, Blown Away

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Here, Pubs, Pint

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

Love, Ahead, Perfectly, Potholes

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

Other, About, Great Sense, OK

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Big, Drop, Roller

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

Trust, Want, Go, Girlfriends

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

- Drew Barrymore

Internet, Equal, Does, Sodium

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

Grow, Excited, Meant, Table

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

Good, I Think, All Women, Table

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

- Drew Barrymore

Makeup, Chair, About, Table

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

Work, Learn, Living, Sitting

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, My Life, Gotten, Scared

I was 14 when I moved into my own apartment. I was so scared. I didn't know anything.

- Drew Barrymore

Own, My Own, Moved, Scared

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

- Drew Barrymore

Luck, Bus, Some, Deprived

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Horror, Films, Horror Films

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

Mom, Go, Wash, Sit

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

Think, I Think, Very, Collect

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

Love, Go, Through, Embarrassing

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

- Drew Barrymore

Alone, Movie, Hang, Group

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Feel, Part, Weird Way

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Single, Freak, Control Freak

I'm a bit of a control freak.

- Drew Barrymore

Control, Freak, Bit, Control Freak

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

- Drew Barrymore

Meaningful, Message, Just, Soulful

I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through, too.

- Drew Barrymore

Through, Going, Environments, Platforms

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

- Drew Barrymore

Marriage, Like, Permanent, Tattoos

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

- Drew Barrymore

Dress, Bicycle, Rode, Free Spirit

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

Other, Had, Your, Camera

My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

- Drew Barrymore

Dress, Thought, Conservative, Flats

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

- Drew Barrymore

Night, Feel, Lay, Pillow

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

Happy, One Day, Maybe, Paths

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

My Own, Going, Side, Push

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

- Drew Barrymore

Me, Movies, Accomplish, Puppies

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

- Drew Barrymore

Passionate, Prepared, Push

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

Advice, Kid, Your, Longevity

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

- Drew Barrymore

Want, Fortune, Mostly, Good Friends

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

- Drew Barrymore

Journey, Childhood, Parent, My Journey

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

Artist, I Think, Passage, New Music

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

Work, My Life, Sure, Between

Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.

- Drew Barrymore

My Life, Diligent, Works, Wakes

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Habit, Most, Love Is

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

- Drew Barrymore

Lovely, Always, Very, Fond

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

Death, Reason, Lucky, Aging

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

- Drew Barrymore

Thought, Big, I Remember, Starting

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

Alive, Like, Going, Marrow

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

- Drew Barrymore

Words, Still, Spell, Bust

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

Celebrity, Director, Say, Toad

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

- Drew Barrymore

End Of The Day, Had, Fought, Filmmaker

I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

- Drew Barrymore

Cook, Lot, Cookbooks, Pregnant

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

Going, Interesting People, Odd

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

- Drew Barrymore

Makeup, Think, I Think, Swear

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

Hollywood, My Own, Mum, Lifestyle

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

Worry, Think, Offers, Wont

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

- Drew Barrymore

Every Day, Got, Had, Different Schools

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

Own, Feel, Like, Kissing

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

Hands, Passionate, Like, Kissing

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

Been, Years And Years, Living Creatures

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels'.

- Drew Barrymore

Thought, I Remember, Maybe, Action Movies

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

Sound, Go, Makes, Calms

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

My Life, Dislike, Been, Keeps

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

- Drew Barrymore

Resolve, Tend, Neatly, Real Life

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Want, Going, Hurt

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

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Love, Other, Too, To Love

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

Idea, Having, Putting, No Idea

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

- Drew Barrymore

Here, Maybe, Really, Hotel Room

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

- Drew Barrymore

Through, Some, I Think, Funniest

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

- Drew Barrymore

Think, I Think, Stiff, Fantastic

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

- Drew Barrymore

Calm, Wanted, Gotten, Older

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

- Drew Barrymore

Voice, Reason, One Day, Aspire

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Through, Perfectly, Prettier

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

Away, Had, Points, Helped

Of course I want to look good in clothes. And it never makes me feel good when somebody who has an insane figure tells me, 'I eat whatever I want.'

- Drew Barrymore

Want, Makes, Figure, Clothes

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, About, Prolific, Producing

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

Very, About, Least, Make Up

I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what is the one thing you would bring?' I would say, 'It's my concealer or you can just kill me now.' I've thought this through! Because I would find, like, berries in a bowl and make blush.

- Drew Barrymore

Thought, Through, Bring, Blush

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

- Drew Barrymore

Go, Through, Going, Suggest

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

- Drew Barrymore

Skin, Feel, Whole, Liberating

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

- Drew Barrymore

Slow, Okay, Wins, Steady

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

- Drew Barrymore

My Life, Bitter, Been, Generally

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

- Drew Barrymore

Love, May, Would, Fish

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Wait, Idea, No Interest

The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

- Drew Barrymore

My Life, Been, Sure, Gone

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

- Drew Barrymore

Dedication, My Life, Want, Motherhood

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

- Drew Barrymore

Want, Needs, Anybody, Anybody Else

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

- Drew Barrymore

Wonderful, Kid, Wanted, Traditional

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

- Drew Barrymore

Celebrity, Planet, Most, Disgusting

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

Mind, Want, More, Comfortable

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.

- Drew Barrymore

Person, Very, Research

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

- Drew Barrymore

World, Kid, Were, Erratic

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

- Drew Barrymore

Love, Mirror, Shame, Absolutely

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

Fair, Want, Say, Absolutely

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

- Drew Barrymore

Hot, Think, Definitely

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

- Drew Barrymore

Sunshine, Like, Ground

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

- Drew Barrymore

Parent, Lead By Example, Lead

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

Lucky, Venue, Healthier, Gypsies

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

- Drew Barrymore

Work, Learning, Them, Function

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

- Drew Barrymore

Question, Prove, Still, Burning

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

- Drew Barrymore

I Am, Ice, Cubes, Obsessed

I never act my characters - I am them.

- Drew Barrymore

I Am, Never, Act, Characters

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

- Drew Barrymore

Help, Themselves, Crusade, Feel Good

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

- Drew Barrymore

Doing, Explain, Anybody, Riding

I find a lot of really hot people to be extremely boring because they haven't had to work at it.

- Drew Barrymore

Boring, Find, Lot, Extremely

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

- Drew Barrymore

Business, Lot, Protecting, Creativity

I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.

- Drew Barrymore

My Life, Whatsoever, Regrets

Everything I do, I do infinite percent.

- Drew Barrymore

Percent, Everything, Infinite

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

- Drew Barrymore

Never, Stop, Through, Listening

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

- Drew Barrymore

Perfect, Need, Most, Worry

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