Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Lived
System
Life
Related Quotes:
" 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
Think
Body
Heart
" 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
Me
Hate
" 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
Appreciate
Parent
Journey
" 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
World
Parents
" 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
Myself
Fall
" I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York. "
Drew Barrymore
New
Go
Good
" I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus. "
Drew Barrymore
Motherhood
Focus
Dedication
" 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
Food
Women
Want
" 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
Someone
Something
Work
" California is an unbelievable state. "
Drew Barrymore
California
State
Unbelievable
" 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
Tough
Child
Time
" 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
Living
You
Appreciate
" 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
Want
Girlfriend
Go
" A lot of my business is about protecting creativity. "
Drew Barrymore
Lot
Creativity
Business
" My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey. "
Drew Barrymore
Choices
Journey
My Life
" Internet does not equal sodium pentothal. "
Drew Barrymore
Sodium
Equal
Does
" 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
Powerful
Heart
Think
" 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
Spiritual
Family
Great
" 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
I Am
Know
Life
" When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most. "
Drew Barrymore
You
Most
Need
" It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning. "
Drew Barrymore
You
Learn
Learning
" I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all. "
Drew Barrymore
Me
Passion
Movies
" 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
Insecurity
Know
" I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person. "
Drew Barrymore
Person
Very
Research
" 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
Know
Eyes
Think
" 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
Change
Me
Help
" 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
School
Time
Think
" 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
Clothes
Feel
Good
" 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
Day
Happy
Paths
" 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
Cool
Movies
Thought