Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.
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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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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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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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I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.
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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.
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Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
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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.
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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.
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It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.
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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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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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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I'm a Cali girl through and through.
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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.
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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.
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I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.
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I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
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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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When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
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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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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.
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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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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.