Latest Drew Barrymore Quotes from Interviews

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• Instead of being insecure and jealous and suspicious and wonder if every guy is going to cheat on me, I decided to say, "Nope. This will be totally enough for somebody one day." That was a real script flip and it changed the rest of my life in such a positive way. So I feel like I want to teach stuff like that to my girls.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Real, Jealous

  Source: www.elle.com

• Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

  Drew Barrymore

  Flower, Dying, Helping

  Source: www.elle.com

• I don't have a long, drawn-out Joan Crawford beauty routine. I'm not like, "Yes, I wake up and first I put ice on my face." I do it in a taxi on my way to a meeting. Traveling is my makeup routine. I do it in a car ride, and I'm that asshole on the road who's doing her mascara in the mirror.

  Drew Barrymore

  Makeup, Car, Long

  Source: www.elle.com

• If I read something that's really intense and depressive, I will face it; I will try - but there's plenty of times I also run away. I think it's trying to find a balance between the positive and the negative. They don't exist without each other. It's the polarity; it's two sides of a coin. You can't get one without the other. I don't wallow. I can't stand it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Running, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• We're all going through so much hard, wonderful, amazing . . . it's blessings; it's lessons; it's hardship; it's life. I guess, I don't know what the definition of life is. I now know the meaning of my life, because of my daughters, but mine is one little tiny speck in the universe. It's nice to not be pretending everything is perfect all the time, because it isn't, but I do love happiness and joy and optimism.

  Drew Barrymore

  Daughter, Nice, Blessing

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• Getting out of your comfort zone, creating an adventure is really good.

  Drew Barrymore

  Adventure, Comfort, Comfort Zone

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• Get yourself out. Be brave. Don't leave before you're ready, because you should know that you tried everything. So there's a conviction and a confidence when you step away from something that may or may not be conducive to your life. I think if you run away too quickly, you're going to have that "Oh God, did I try everything?" feeling. Try everything. Make it work. Do everything you can. If it's not working, then know when the signal is and move on. Change. Try something different.

  Drew Barrymore

  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I want to be the rock that floats.

  Drew Barrymore

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I think my whole life, work has been a very important and positive thing for me. It never was something that made me feel unhappy or disengaged from life. It always makes me feel like I'm plugged in, in a really healthy way.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Healthy, Important

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

  Drew Barrymore

  Rodeo, Clown

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• My life is so different than I thought it would be.

  Drew Barrymore

  Different

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I don't think anyone is coasting on this earth. I think everybody does feel incredible struggles. Any day that you're not held down by the struggle, celebrate it! Be present, because I feel like I lost sight of that for a while going through hard stuff. And now, I'm really enjoying the good moments.

  Drew Barrymore

  Struggle, Thinking, Earth

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• Happiness takes work. It doesn't always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn't fall prey to being sad. I don't want sad, I can't be sad, I don't want to be about sad; I avoid sad. It inherently envelops you, so do everything that you can to escape it all the time.

  Drew Barrymore

  Fall, Tree, Being Sad

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• When you have a big life change, it takes a long time to get used to either the new format or the understanding that you need to create a new dream. Or if things didn't work out, mourning the death of that dream. It's hard, because that's a very private journey.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dream, Life Changing, Journey

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I can't get caught up in darkness. I just don't. I always want to gravitate towards light. I love picking yourself up or surviving or being grateful for the good stuff and not getting lost in the tough stuff. The discipline is so natural for me.

  Drew Barrymore

  Grateful, Discipline, Darkness

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dancing, Playing Music, Down And

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.

  Drew Barrymore

  Issues, Tears, Actors

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

  Drew Barrymore

  Different, World, Periods

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Sexy, Kids

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It's an item that could make you believe you're in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, Thinking, Rocks

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.

  Drew Barrymore

  Littles, Homework, Tracy

  "Director's Cut: Best Coast: 'Our Deal'". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.

  Drew Barrymore

  Culture, World, Filmmaker

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

  Drew Barrymore

  Song, Thinking, Car

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

  Drew Barrymore

  Growing Up, Husband, Big Families

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

• I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

  Drew Barrymore

  Photography, Writing, Together

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.