Drew Barrymore Quotes

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

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

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

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.

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

Beauty is so within. I don't care if you're the most attractive person on the planet...if you're not good inside, it will show. You fall in love with people from the inside out.

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

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.

You can never, never have too many books

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.

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.

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work.

I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

My life is so different than I thought it would be.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.

People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.

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

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

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

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.

When you become very ill - raise your head. You will definitely see the sunlight.

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.

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

I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?

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.

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

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

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