Drew Barrymore Quotes

Drew: I have mainly very positive things I like to feel about my parents. I think I inherited my mother`s incredible spirit and enthusiasm for life, her humour, her passion for music. Even though we don`t see each other very much.

Drew: I`m like a workhorse. When I get started on something, I never quit

Drew: I`ve never really understood how I should feel or behave in a relationship... I didn`t have the kind of childhood or family life that would have given me any perspective on what a happy home life or relationship would feel like. My father was literally out of his mind and my mother was more like a friend than a real mom to me. She would take me out to clubs and I wound up feeling like part of this very unreal kind of world, although that was the only world I ever knew growing up.

Drew: (revealing her top dating tip) The only fundamental rule for me is to just be yourself. Let your freak-flag fly, and if someone doesn`t get you, move on.

Drew: I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror, and they reflect that happiness.

Drew: I`m a sexual, free, f***ing nudist little bird running around and a wood nymph when it comes to sexuality

Drew: I believe you can catch happiness in your butterfly net everyday

Drew: I hope everyone says `I love you` at least once a day.

Drew: There`s nothing like the power of a smile

Drew: (on her mother, Jaid, whom she legally divorced at the age of 17) I felt I needed more support from her when I was younger. The intentions between us are good now - but the execution of those intentions is always a little tricky. But it`s getting easier as I`m at that age where I can see the good things about my mother as well as the bad. I now hold her in high regard.

Drew: I am a yin and a yang Piscean. I`m an extremist, I`m a polarity. No wonder I`m a schizophrenic.

Drew: (on visiting England) I`ve loved coming here my whole life. I find that we Americans tend to look to you guys for what to do with music and fashion and a ton of other things, and I don`t think that should ever end. I love England

Drew: (on following Juliette Lewis and releasing an album) Oh, I think she is pretty hot! I don`t know, if I ever did it would be a dream come true, because I`ve always been told, `Please stop singing`.

Drew: I`ll drive in Ireland and park my car and run out into the field and rip all my clothes off and just run in the wheat fields naked.

Drew: (on boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti) You shouldn`t take love and your relationship so dammed heavy all the time. Laugh more! Laugh your ass off! You need to reinvent your relationship if you want to continue being together. Right now I`m in a phase of, `I`m not even your girlfriend. I`m your best friend who is madly in love with you.` The longest I`ve ever been with someone was like two to three years, so I`m in uncharted waters. Right now I`m more into championing him as a human being than gushing love for him

Drew: Range is my biggest goal. In movies I get to be cool and tough and rock’n’roll, and those are things I’d like to be in real life, but I’m not. I’m sort of dorky.

Drew: My mom is an interesting character. She`s well-read, lived in amazing times, has great stories... but when you`re a kid, you don`t want your mother to be that person. You don`t want to hear that Mick Jagger`s in the bedroom

Drew: If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him

Drew: I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afriad to Ask. I was not afraid to ask

Drew: Range is my biggest goal. In movies I get to be cool and tough and rock’n’roll, and those are things I’d like to be in real life, but I’m not. I’m sort of dorky.

Drew: My mom is an interesting character. She`s well-read, lived in amazing times, has great stories... but when you`re a kid, you don`t want your mother to be that person. You don`t want to hear that Mick Jagger`s in the bedroom

Drew: If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him

Drew: I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afriad to Ask. I was not afraid to ask

Drew: Sex is the most potent drug in the world.

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

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

Drew: If you`re going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something

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

Drew: I get to be a kid now, because I wasn`t a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I`m like an old woman-lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt

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

Drew: Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always considered myself bisexual. I love a woman`s body. I think that a woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful. Being with a woman is like experiencing your own body through someone else...I totally love it

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

Drew: 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: 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`?

Drew: (talking about her morning routine) Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe; then I wash my face and check my karma.

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

I definitely don`t think that I`m hot doo-doo. I don`t.

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

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

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

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.

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

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don`t expect.

I love levity. As crazy as I am, I just love to laugh!

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

There`s nothing like the power of a smile.

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`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.

(On her morning routine): Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.

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.

I never act my characters - I am them.

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

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

I`m getting older so those dark circles are really starting to show. Now, I`m starting to look like Night of the Living Dead.

I did karaoke once-a Pat Benatar song-and my friends looked at me with disgust. (In Style/Sept/2006)

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

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

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.

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

As much light as I have inside me, there`s just as much darkness, I`m afraid. There`s a polarity, and I still have demons to work out.

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

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.

My parents are not bad people. It was just a case of them not wanting a child.

I believe in fate. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it`s important to seek out that reason - that`s how you learn.

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

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.

I love women who have fought to the change the world and made a difference. I want to be one of them myself.

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

I don`t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

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.

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

I don`t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

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.

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.

If I ever start talking to you about my `craft`, my `instrument`, you have permission to shoot me.

(On her favorite movies to make): 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.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

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

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

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.

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.

(Quoted in Woman`s Day, 11-1-05): My whole life, I`ve wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It`s the most liberating thing in the world.

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

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`?

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

(As quoted in Woman`s World (5-24-05 issue): I`d rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

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.

You`ve just got to do the best that you can.

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.

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

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

I`m not insecure. I`ve been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I`ve got huge balls. But I`ve been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.