Drew Barrymore Quotes

• "Daisies are like sunshine to the ground."
• "Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves."
• "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."
• "I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed."
• "I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day."
• "I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn."
• "I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't."
• "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."
• "I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child."
• "I get to be a kid now, because I wasn't a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I'm like an old woman-lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt."
• "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'?"
• "I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option."
• "I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic."
• "I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end."
• "I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else."
• "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."
• "I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important."
• "I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it."
• "I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, famly problems. I don't feel like some quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it."
• "I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself."
• "I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect."
• "I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't."
• "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."
• "I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better."
• "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."
• "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."
• "If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it."
• "If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something."
• "It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning."
• "Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful."
• "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."
• "Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."
• "Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy."
• "My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world."
• "Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!"
• "Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."
• "There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk."
• "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."
• "When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most."
• "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."
• "You've just got to do the best that you can."
• "I never act my characters - I am them."
• "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."
• "Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves."
• "Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."
• "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."
• "I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else."
• "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."
• "I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it."