Quotes from Drew Barrymore

Our plan was to go from Los Angeles to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, where Nan's family had a lake house

Flossy was my first girl. And the love I felt for her is one of the best gifts I have ever known.

Well, I think to myself now, domestic bliss may be one thing, but domestic goddess you are not.

you live and the things you achieve and

That thing, that moment when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that person is the only person you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that it will go away at the same time.

We were all in the incubation process and in the last carefree times of our lives. We were human Polaroids slowly developing into what other people would see, but for now we were just scrappy kids in no rush to grow up.

I may not have done it with grace, but I fought my way into something better and more enlightened... My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

because I love my life and it takes every step to get to where you are, and if you are happy, then God bless the hard times it took you to get there. No life is without them, so what are yours, and what did you do with the lessons? That is the only way to live. Another

And maybe now it's about telling the occasional story that I recently believe in and think would be good to put out there into the world. But I look back, that crying taught me how to approach everything in life. Acting or Otherwise.

Be Authentic. Be yourself. And most important of all..make it personal

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

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.

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

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

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

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.

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

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

You can never, never have too many books

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

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

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

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.