Drew Barrymore quote: "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."

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

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

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producin...
DREW BARRYMORE

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a litt...
DREW BARRYMORE

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you s...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear any...
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

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

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
DREW BARRYMORE

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel...
DREW BARRYMORE

Don't show your flaws.
DREW BARRYMORE

Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passion...
DREW BARRYMORE

Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love
DREW BARRYMORE

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So ...
DREW BARRYMORE

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and a...
DREW BARRYMORE

Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a ki...
DREW BARRYMORE

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of peop...
DREW BARRYMORE

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the con...
DREW BARRYMORE

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm s...
DREW BARRYMORE

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These ...
DREW BARRYMORE

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a leve...
DREW BARRYMORE

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful...
DREW BARRYMORE

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and rest...
DREW BARRYMORE

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I ju...
DREW BARRYMORE

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mi...
DREW BARRYMORE

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn&...
DREW BARRYMORE

I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what i...
DREW BARRYMORE

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
DREW BARRYMORE

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choice...
DREW BARRYMORE

In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
DREW BARRYMORE

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.
DREW BARRYMORE

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
DREW BARRYMORE

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, b...
DREW BARRYMORE

I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. ...
DREW BARRYMORE

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get...
DREW BARRYMORE

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my...
DREW BARRYMORE

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. B...
DREW BARRYMORE

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are ...
DREW BARRYMORE

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you in...
DREW BARRYMORE

You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfect...
DREW BARRYMORE

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering ...
DREW BARRYMORE

My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always though...
DREW BARRYMORE

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to th...
DREW BARRYMORE

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.
DREW BARRYMORE

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good...
DREW BARRYMORE

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't wa...
DREW BARRYMORE

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - wh...
DREW BARRYMORE

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so incon...
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 ...
DREW BARRYMORE

I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.
DREW BARRYMORE

It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're tryin...
DREW BARRYMORE

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.
DREW BARRYMORE

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't,...
DREW BARRYMORE

I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy...
DREW BARRYMORE

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a m...
DREW BARRYMORE

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every ...
DREW BARRYMORE

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.
DREW BARRYMORE

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A sa...
DREW BARRYMORE

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into the...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll ...
DREW BARRYMORE

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room servic...
DREW BARRYMORE

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was s...
DREW BARRYMORE

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passi...
DREW BARRYMORE

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then ...
DREW BARRYMORE

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a gro...
DREW BARRYMORE

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothin...
DREW BARRYMORE

That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing...
DREW BARRYMORE

I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused ...
DREW BARRYMORE

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly [that I want] to have a good job a...
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

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

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
DREW BARRYMORE

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

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
DREW BARRYMORE

It was like going through a museum of an artist's greatest works.
DREW BARRYMORE

Angelina has my hugest respect and I actually called her and asked her [for advice] when I was going...
DREW BARRYMORE

Because of George's adventures, he brings the Man into all these other experiences
DREW BARRYMORE

I wanted to go [to Africa] because I read an article in the New York Times about education becoming ...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

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

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight ...
DREW BARRYMORE

I never act my characters - I am them.
DREW BARRYMORE

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

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being com...
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 l...
DREW BARRYMORE

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on g...
DREW BARRYMORE

I was obsessed with him. I wouldn't leave his side for a second.
DREW BARRYMORE

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

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason -...
DREW BARRYMORE

We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's bein...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

And now they are making claims about my behavior, which is outrageous. This family obviously has a c...
DREW BARRYMORE

I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal,
DREW BARRYMORE

The family making this claim were constantly taking pictures of me. And I politely asked them to sto...
DREW BARRYMORE

There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and ...
DREW BARRYMORE

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, be...
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....
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 p...
DREW BARRYMORE

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided fo...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to ge...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

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

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

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

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

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't kno...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

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

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

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day ...
DREW BARRYMORE

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I w...
DREW BARRYMORE

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generall...
DREW BARRYMORE

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not m...
DREW BARRYMORE

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pub...
DREW BARRYMORE

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to se...
DREW BARRYMORE

I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for...
DREW BARRYMORE

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.
DREW BARRYMORE

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
DREW BARRYMORE

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.
DREW BARRYMORE

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What...
DREW BARRYMORE

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.
DREW BARRYMORE

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to h...
DREW BARRYMORE

I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on t...
DREW BARRYMORE

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.
DREW BARRYMORE

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
DREW BARRYMORE

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

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a pr...
DREW BARRYMORE

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
DREW BARRYMORE

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so w...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're luc...
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 f...
DREW BARRYMORE

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

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.
DREW BARRYMORE

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
JOHN BARRYMORE

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh-at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for ...
JOHN BARRYMORE

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
JOHN BARRYMORE

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn
JOHN BARRYMORE

A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to b...
JOHN BARRYMORE

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
JOHN BARRYMORE

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
ETHEL BARRYMORE

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to ...
JOHN BARRYMORE

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
JOHN BARRYMORE

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anyw...
JOHN BARRYMORE

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
JOHN BARRYMORE

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE

There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like...
JOHN BARRYMORE

You never know how short a month is until you pay alimony.
JOHN BARRYMORE

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cle...
JOHN BARRYMORE

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in ...
JOHN BARRYMORE

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE

The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The food is unreal, it doesn't tast...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
JOHN BARRYMORE

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
JOHN BARRYMORE

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
JOHN BARRYMORE

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up i...
JOHN BARRYMORE

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grac...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good
JOHN BARRYMORE

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
JOHN BARRYMORE

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
JOHN BARRYMORE

A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had t...
JOHN BARRYMORE

One of my chief regrets during my recent years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience...
JOHN BARRYMORE

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
JOHN BARRYMORE

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in tw...
JOHN BARRYMORE

Brides aren't happy - they are just triumphant.
JOHN BARRYMORE

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
JOHN BARRYMORE

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracke...
JOHN BARRYMORE

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
JOHN BARRYMORE

Ring of Fire, The Johnny Cash Musical Show
ETHEL BARRYMORE

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong t...
ETHEL BARRYMORE

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
LIONEL BARRYMORE

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
LIONEL BARRYMORE

I've got a lot of ham in me.
LIONEL BARRYMORE

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
JOHN BARRYMORE

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free
JOHN BARRYMORE

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open
JOHN BARRYMORE

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and w...
JOHN BARRYMORE

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century...
LIONEL BARRYMORE

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surr...
JOHN BARRYMORE

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
JOHN BARRYMORE

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is ...
LIONEL BARRYMORE

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run
JOHN BARRYMORE

Paper napkins never return from a laundry - nor love from a trip to the law courts
JOHN BARRYMORE

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
LIONEL 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.

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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.

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