Drew Barrymore Quotes

• 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

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  Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Beautiful, Grace, Ugly

• 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

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

  Drew Barrymore

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  Tags in Strength, Pains

• You can never, never have too many books.

  Drew Barrymore

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  Tags in Books

• The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

  Drew Barrymore

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  Tags in Happiness, Freedom

• 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 s*x, hands down.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Love

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

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Hardest, Difficult

• Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

  Drew Barrymore

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  Tags in Circus, Drew

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passion, Helped

• At 35, I’m definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There’s nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that – and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it’s going to feel stiff.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Childish, Starting

• 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.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Director, Prolific

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dusty, Old

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fat, I Feel

• I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted – there you go, out in the world!

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Womb, I Feel

• I don’t like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Camera, Doubles

• 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.’ Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Charlie, Production

• I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower – then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it’s exhilarating.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Roller, Seats

• Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equal, Internet

• 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.

  Drew Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Felt, Optimistic

Drew Barrymore (88)

Birth:	22nd February, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Film Director, Model, Producer

About

Drew Blythe Barrymore was born in Culver City, California. She is an American actress, author, film director, model, and producer. In 1980, she made her film debut in Altered States. She wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. She successfully made the transition from child star to adult actress with a number of films including Poison Ivy, Bad Girls, Boys on the Side and Everyone Says I Love You. Her first production the 1999 film Never Been Kissed. In 2007, she became both CoverGirl's newest model and spokeswoman for the cosmetic and the face for Gucci's newest jewelry line. In 2010, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

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