Drew Barrymore Quotes

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it didn't work. I went the way I wanted to.

I want to follow my path.

You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.

Everybody makes his path differently.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

I just pretty much do what I want to do.

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.