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Actress
Born On
1975-02-22
Birth Place
Culver City, California, United States
Birth Sign
pisces
Father
John Drew Barrymore
Mother
Jaid Barrymore
Spouse
Jeremy Thomas, Tom Green, Will Kopelman (m. 2012)
Nationality
American
Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses, T V & Movie Producers

Her phenomenal acting capabilities have catapulted Drew to the status in the Hollywood industry. Her movies such as ‘Poison Ivy’, ‘Mad Love’ and ‘Boys on the Side’ have achieved tremendous success and are also well-known for the sex scenes featuring this actress.

In 2015, this exceptionally talented actress claimed that the turning point in her career was her 1995 interview with the famous talk show host David Letterman on ‘The Late Show’. Many of her celluloid works were analyzed during this long chat. After her chat with David Letterman concluded, Barrymore watched the whole show with her friends. Barrymore recalled that after watching this episode of hers, she realized that the interview actually marked an end of an era, in terms of her career. Drew said, “And so I started my journey into no sex scenes in movies, modesty clauses in my contracts, and a total lack of nudity in any public forum from there on out.”

Hence the actress apparently considers this interview to be a blessing in disguise. This blonde beauty, who has worked in dozens of films over three decades, faced the camera for the first time when she was all of 11 months. Starting from that tender age till date, this outstanding actress has achieved several professional milestones and has taken the entire Hollywood industry by storm.  The ‘Elle Women in Hollywood Awards’ and ‘GLAAD Media Awards’ are a few examples of Barrymore’s accomplishments.

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.

Uniformity
Drew Barrymore

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

Appearance
Drew Barrymore

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

Love
Drew Barrymore

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

Life
Drew Barrymore

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

Risk
Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

Life Past
Drew Barrymore

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

Love
Drew Barrymore

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

Focus
Drew Barrymore

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

Life Strength
Drew Barrymore

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

Cool Service
Drew Barrymore

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Life Time
Drew Barrymore

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

Drew Barrymore

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

Life World
Drew 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.

Work
Drew Barrymore

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

Life Happiness
Drew Barrymore

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Life Love Motivation
Drew Barrymore

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

Learning
Drew Barrymore

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

Dress Words
Drew Barrymore

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

Love
Drew Barrymore

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

Love Mirror
Drew Barrymore

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

Death Age
Drew Barrymore

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

Sunlight
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 beautiful.

Night
Drew Barrymore

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

Girl Flowers
Drew Barrymore

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Words Language
Drew Barrymore

I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what is the one thing you would bring?' I would say, 'It's my concealer or you can just kill me now.' I've thought this through! Because I would find, like, berries in a bowl and make blush.

Drew Barrymore

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.

Life
Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

Life People
Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

Romance
Drew Barrymore

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Good Life
Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

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.

People Time
Drew Barrymore

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. 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.

Life Work
Drew Barrymore

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.

People
Drew Barrymore

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

Drew Barrymore

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Life People
Drew Barrymore

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

Learning
Drew Barrymore

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

Problems Wealth
Drew Barrymore

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

Personality
Drew Barrymore

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.

Drew Barrymore

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

Life Love Control Design
Drew Barrymore

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

Life Focus
Drew Barrymore

I'm a bit of a control freak.

Control
Drew Barrymore

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.

Good Life Power Success
Drew Barrymore

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.

Music Art Beauty
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 get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

Drew Barrymore

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

Things Worrying
Drew Barrymore

Everything I do, I do infinite percent.

Drew Barrymore

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.

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 place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

Life
Drew Barrymore

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.

Life
Drew Barrymore

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.

Love Night
Drew Barrymore

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.

Creativity
Drew Barrymore

I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!

Order
Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.

Love
Drew Barrymore

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

Cool
Drew Barrymore

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 those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

Anger
Drew Barrymore

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.

Greatness Love
Drew Barrymore

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

Hatred
Drew Barrymore

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

Celebrities
Drew Barrymore

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

Love People
Drew Barrymore

You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.

Good Work
Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Life Good Fortune
Drew Barrymore

I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

Music Dating
Drew Barrymore

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 child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

Family Love People Work
Drew Barrymore

California is an unbelievable state.

State
Drew Barrymore

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Life Nature Art History
Drew Barrymore

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

Life World
Drew Barrymore

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

Good Art Work
Drew Barrymore

I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'

World Parents
Drew Barrymore

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... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

Fear
Drew Barrymore

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Hatred
Drew Barrymore

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

World Parents
Drew Barrymore

The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Life People
Drew Barrymore

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

Drew Barrymore

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

Funny People
Drew Barrymore

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

Business Creativity
Drew Barrymore

I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

Drew Barrymore

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

People
Drew Barrymore

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

Love Travelling
Drew Barrymore

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

Night
Drew Barrymore

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

Life Love
Drew Barrymore

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Architecture
Drew Barrymore

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.

Drew Barrymore

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

Acting People
Drew Barrymore

When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'

Greatness Respect
Drew Barrymore

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

Words
Drew Barrymore

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

Work Home
Drew Barrymore

I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.

Life
Drew Barrymore

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

Drew Barrymore

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

Drew Barrymore

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

People Time
Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

Family People Time
Drew Barrymore

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

Love Food
Drew Barrymore

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

Character Smile
Drew Barrymore

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