Logo
Quotes by

Drew Barrymore

At 35, Im definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. Theres 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 its going to feel stiff. – Drew Barrymore

Whether youre throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I dont trust women who dont go to their girlfriends. – Drew Barrymore

I dont mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing Riding in Cars With Boys, I wouldnt smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. Im the opposite. Inside my head Id be like, God, Ill explain to you at the end of shooting that Im not this person. – Drew Barrymore

Im not after fame and success and fortune and power. Its mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends thats the good stuff in life. – Drew Barrymore

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 elses door. Because I dont want the remnants. I dont want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning. – Drew Barrymore

I love romance. Im a sucker for it. I love it so much. Its pathetic. – Drew Barrymore

You cant live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didnt do for you. Youre dealt the cards that youre dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. – Drew Barrymore

Its only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning. – Drew Barrymore

Im just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. – Drew Barrymore

If youre going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something. – Drew Barrymore

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

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, dont 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

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 cant take myself too seriously. – Drew Barrymore

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 doesnt resemble the original dish at all. – Drew Barrymore

Being a Barrymore didnt 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

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and Im in an office with them. So in a weird way – I know I havent birthed a child – I feel that Im a part of creating a family. Its a tribe. I love that word. – Drew Barrymore

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 Im going to survive. – Drew Barrymore

Id definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my childs dreams. Id just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do… I think Id be a good parent, actually. – Drew Barrymore

Ive always said that one night, Im going to find myself in some field somewhere, Im standing on grass, and its raining, and Im with the person I love, and I know Im at the very point Ive been dreaming of getting to. – Drew Barrymore

Im a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life. – Drew Barrymore