These Drew Barrymore quotes will inspire you. Drew Blythe Barrymore is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as five Emmy Award nominations and a BAFTA nomination.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Drew Barrymore quotes, Drew Barrymore sayings, and Drew Barrymore proverbs.
Best Drew Barrymore Quotes
- “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.” ~ Drew Barrymore , Drew Barrymore quotes butterfly
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“I think happiness is what makes you pretty.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.” ~ Drew Barrymore , Drew Barrymore quotes on happiness
- “Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “You can’t live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn’t do for you. You’re dealt the cards that you’re dealt. I realized it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I always leave a relationship with a sense of hope.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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 Barrymore
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“I swear to god; happiness is the best makeup.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let’s get down and dirty. Let’s be a real girl.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I know that I won’t succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“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 Barrymore
- “I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I’m generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can’t wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn’t send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I’m more comfortable in clothes than ever.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they’re dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it’ll make it better.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone’s personality. It’s a very lovely concept.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “You’ve just got to do the best that you can.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else’s. That’s my journey.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“I don’t like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.”” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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 Barrymore
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“When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I think happiness is a choice. I believe luck is your attitude. It sounds like a really annoying bumper sticker. But there is such a great truth in that. You choose how you want to feel about what happens to you. I could have been a miserable failure. I haven’t had anybody looking over me, and I’ve found my own way through optimistic exploration and fire-burning mistakes. I am a very happy person with an extraordinary life, so I must be doing a lot of things right. I really believe when you peel away the layers, the worlds is a beautiful place filled with beautiful people.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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
- “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 Barrymore
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“Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I love being single. It’s great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I’m very fortunate, and it’s very rich fulfilling time in my life.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “There’s a big world out there. Bigger than prom, bigger than high school, and it won’t matter if you were the prom queen or the quarterback of the football team or the biggest nerd. Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends cos I’m too content being by myself.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I don’t even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don’t want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it’s like discovering a filmmaker who you’re taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, “I’m so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I can’t think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“You can never, never have too many books” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives – and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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 Barrymore
- “I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“When you become very ill – raise your head. You will definitely see the sunlight.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “I’m just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “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