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

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."

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

Barrymore: "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."

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

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."

Barrymore: "I do everything in this life-or-death way."

Barrymore: "I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker."

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

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."

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

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."

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."

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."

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

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

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

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."

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

Barrymore: "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."

Barrymore: "I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person."

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."

Barrymore: "I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid."

Barrymore: "Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition."

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

Barrymore: "I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe."

Barrymore: "It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves."

Barrymore: "I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually."

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

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."

Barrymore: "I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else."

Barrymore: "I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that's not just physically, it's psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better."

Barrymore: "I'm a bit of a control freak."

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."

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

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."

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

Barrymore: "I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way."

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."

Barrymore: "Daisies are like sunshine to the ground."

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."

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."

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

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."

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

Barrymore: "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."

Barrymore: "Life's too short. We have to love each other."

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."

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

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."

Barrymore: "My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey."

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."

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

Barrymore: "I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, ten 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.'"

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

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."

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

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."

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."

Barrymore: "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."

Barrymore: "Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly."