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.

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

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.

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

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

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.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

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

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

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

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

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 am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

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.

There’s a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there’s no person I’m going to push to the side to get where I’m going. I want to create my own road.

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

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

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

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 never act my characters – I am them.

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.

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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