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Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

– Drew Barrymore

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

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– Drew Barrymore

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

– Drew Barrymore

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

– 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

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

– 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 don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– 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

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

– Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

– Drew Barrymore

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afriad to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.

– 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 never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

– 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 really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

– Drew Barrymore

I think I have a love for TV hosts. I can't help it. Ted Koppel was my first crush when I was three. Then I was in love with David Letterman. He's my sweetheart. But now I've got my Tom.

– Drew Barrymore

I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it.

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– Drew Barrymore

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

– Drew Barrymore

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

– Drew Barrymore

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

– 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

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.

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– 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

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.

– Drew Barrymore

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

– Drew Barrymore

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

– Drew Barrymore

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

– 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

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

– Drew Barrymore

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

– Drew Barrymore

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

– Drew Barrymore

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

– Drew Barrymore

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

– Drew Barrymore

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

– Drew Barrymore

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

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– Drew Barrymore

You've just got to do the best that you can.

– 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 realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

– Drew Barrymore

Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.

– Drew Barrymore

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

– Drew Barrymore

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

– 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 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– Drew Barrymore

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

– 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

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

– 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'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

– Drew Barrymore

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

– Drew Barrymore

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

– Drew Barrymore

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

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.

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– Drew Barrymore

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.

– Drew Barrymore

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

– Drew Barrymore

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

– Drew Barrymore

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

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

– Drew Barrymore

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

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