Drew Barrymore Quotes

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.

Drew Barrymore

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• If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Night

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

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Sick
  • Celebrity

• I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Live
  • Perfect

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

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Interesting

• I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Small
  • Hate

• 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
  • Air
  • Vegas

• When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Great
  • Important
  • Respect

• Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Sunshine

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Childhood
  • Journey

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

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Passion

• I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Family

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

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Sweet

• I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Architecture

• I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what is the one thing you would bring?' I would say, 'It's my concealer or you can just kill me now.' I've thought this through! Because I would find, like, berries in a bowl and make blush.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Desert

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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
  • Life
  • Control

• 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
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

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

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Flower

• In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • World
  • Stop

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

  

  Drew Barrymore

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

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Habit

• 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.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • People
  • Time
  • Celebrity