Top 36 Drew Barrymore Quotes



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

 

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

 

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.

 

If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.

 

In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

 

When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious…I’ve learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.

 

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

 

I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.

 

You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class.

 

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.

 

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’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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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’.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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