Drew Barrymore Quotes

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

I just didn't understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

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.

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

I was born 10 years old.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

I think I’m moody because I’m a woman. I can ask any man in this room, like women are just inherently like, moody or hormonal people. I don’t know how men deal with it. I praise them.

If you’re 35 and single and it’s a choice, it feels fine. So I didn’t settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

You know you're putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

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.

I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

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.

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.

I never act my characters - I am them.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.

Girls want to be with guys who have a sense of humor-it makes them far more attractive to us.

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

I don't cook, I can't cook, and it is really abominable to see me in the kitchen. I order in takeaway food or get my friends to cook because a lot of them are very good.

My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else.

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.

Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You're very tired, but it's so wonderful. God, it's emotional, but it's the best. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.

I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I'll want to do?

I don't think that I have any musical talent.

I love romantic comedies that are set in a world. It's not just a boy and a girl falling in love, out of love, and back in love.

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.

As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever.

I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.

I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.