Drew Barrymore Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

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

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 am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

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

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

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

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.

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

I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?

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

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

I never act my characters - I am them.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Trivia

In 1995, Drew climbed on top of David Letterman's desk on The Late Show, and flashed him her breasts for his birthday.

Barrymore is a proficient singer; in her late teens, she participated in a musical tribute to Gershwin. Moreover, Drew was born halfway between two additional actresses with great voices. She is just one month younger than Kelly Packard (of California Dreams fame), and just one month older than Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson from Kids Inc..

Drew keeps a painting done by the walrus from 50 First Dates.

Drew's first kiss was from a guy named Brecken in the back of her mom's car.

Drew suffers from panic attacks, but refuses to take any medicine for it.

Drew is 5 foot 4 inches tall.

Drew has been married twice to Jeremy Thomas and Tom Green. Both marriages didn't last longer than 4 months.

Drew was known for being a "wild child."

Drew used to be a vegetarian.

Drew married Jeremy Thomas on March 20, 1994 and they divorced in 1995.

Drew auditioned for the part of 'Carol Ann' in the 1982 movie by Spielberg, Poltergeist.

Drew signed her house over to her dog 'Flossie', after she saved her and then-husband Tom Green from a house fire that was started as they slept.

Drew was able to reconcile with her father John before he died in 2004, at the age of 74. Of his memory, Drew says 'He was a CoolCat, please smile when you think of him'.

Drew overcame her fear of flying by going skydiving from 14,000 feet.

Drew is afraid of heights.

Drew was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984."

Drew was ranked #5 in VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Kid Stars.

Drew's favorite bands are Daft Punk, Lauryn Hill, Coldplay, and Beck.

While filiming the 2005 movie Fever Pitch, Drew became a Boston Red Sox fan.

Drew's favorite band is The Beatles

Drew and Tom Green went to Ireland for their honeymoon.

Drew's $3-million Beverly Hills mansion caught fire in 2001. Drew and her fiance, Tom Green were sleeping but made it safely out. The house was ruined.

For her birthday, Steven Spielberg gave Drew a quilt. The note that was attached read, "Cover yourself up". Enclosed was a copy of the January 1995 issue of Playboy for which she posed nude, but Steven had altered the pictures so that she appeared fully dressed.

Drew won the 1999 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award for favorite movie actress.

In 2007, Drew topped People magazines list of 100 Most Beautiful People in the World. She has been on the list 4 times, but this is her first at the number 1 spot.

Drew's godfather is Steven Spielberg.

Drew's nickname is D.

Drew has a labrador retriever named Pumpkin.

On February 3, 2004 Drew recieved a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Drew rarely watches any of the movies that she stars in.

Drew has 6 tattoos. She has a cross on her right ankle; a blue moon on her right big toe; a butterfly below her naval; a daisy on her inner left hip; on the middle of her back she has a cross held by an angel with a bar blocking out the name "Jaimie" (ex-boyfriend); on her lower right back she has an angel with a cross bearing the name of her mother "Jaid."

Drew dropped out of high school in 11th grade.