Top 100 Drew Barrymore Quotes
#1. Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.
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#2. Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people's anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what fails to happen is that you actually aren't disseminating the information that you want to get across to these people.
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#3. When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.
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#4. We may not be able to do them all, but it is a safe place to dream. And sometimes, if you really work hard enough, dreams come true.
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#5. I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.
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#6. I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.
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#8. I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.
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#9. Girls want to be with guys who have a sense of humor-it makes them far more attractive to us.
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#10. The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't 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.
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#11. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.
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#17. But in some ways, I'm like an old woman - lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
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#18. You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.
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#19. I want to be with the man who wants to open a movie studio with me and make films for new, fresh filmmakers who aren't getting a chance somewhere else. I haven't yet had that type of partnership in a romantic relationship.
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#20. I don't want to be stinky poo-poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
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#21. I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."
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#22. I wanna smoke pot, but I can't, cause I'm too paranoid.
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#23. Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
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#24. I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'
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#29. My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I'm not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don't feel like a woman. I wonder when that moment's going to hit.
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#30. Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
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#31. My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.
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#33. 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.
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#35. 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 doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
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#36. It was bold, but I have always been a "you only live once, so let your love show and takes risks" kind of person.
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#37. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?
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#41. I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.
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#42. I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.
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#43. To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.
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#44. I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.
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#45. I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.
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#46. My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
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#47. I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.
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#48. I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library ... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.
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#51. A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never be taken for granted! I am lucky that I got dealt some cards that showed me what it's like to not have family, and I am much luckier to now have the chance to create my own deck!
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#52. I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
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#53. To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.
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#54. I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
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#55. I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
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#56. If you are going to go through hell ... I suggest you come back learning something.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
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#60. I just think everything is a learning experience and every moment that you have that actually feels good inside of your heart is an absolute blessing and a gift.
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#61. I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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#62. I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.
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#63. As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.
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#64. You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.
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#65. I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.
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#66. I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.
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#67. 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.
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#68. God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
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#69. It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
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#70. I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.
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#71. I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
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#72. 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'.
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#74. I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
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#75. I believe you can be the person that you dream of being
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#76. When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven't figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.
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#77. I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
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#78. 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 can't take myself too seriously.
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#79. My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis,
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#80. 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?
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#81. You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class.
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#82. Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don't know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and that's a very disheartening feeling.
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#83. The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.
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#85. because I love my life and it takes every step to get to where you are, and if you are happy, then God bless the hard times it took you to get there. No life is without them, so what are yours, and what did you do with the lessons? That is the only way to live. Another
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#86. My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.
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#87. I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.
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#88. The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.
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#89. I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!
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#90. 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.
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#91. 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.
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#92. Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
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#93. Love is the one uniting, relatable thing in everyone's life. It's what we all want and struggle with and fight for.
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#94. But it's all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.
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#95. 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.
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#96. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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#97. It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.
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#98. Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.
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#99. I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.
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#100. 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.
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