Drew Barrymore

“It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.”

“I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in thi...”

“When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.”

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

“My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all thos...”

“I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.”

“Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.”

“Of course I want to look good in clothes. And it never makes me feel good when somebody who has an insane figure tells me, 'I eat whatever I want.'”

“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.”

“I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a chil...”

“I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.”

“The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become b...”

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

“I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.”

“I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.”

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

“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'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 s...”

“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 fam...”

“When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult......”