Live Life Team
Drew Barrymore grew up on screen. We watched her befriend an alien in ET, then seduce men and kick butt in Charlie’s Angels and many more films in between. Through the years, she’s been given a few really good lines. Here are her top ten.
10. ‘Is he a pig, He sure eats like one.’
From ‘E.T.’
It was so darling when she said this, because she was so little, just a curious child making some observations.
9. ‘There’s nothing like a first kiss.’
From ‘Fifty First Dates’
The irony of the movie works and it is true the first kiss is memorable.
8. ‘If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them,’
From ‘Ever After’
Her speech makes sense to me. It’s a silly little cycle going on, where no one ever advances.
7. ‘I’m 22 years old – that’s almost 30, and I still haven’t accepted that this is my life. And I just wish that I could be dumb. And then I wouldn’t know better and I could be happy and stop hoping. And I’m telling you this like you’re interested in my boring life.’
From ‘Riding in Cars With Boys’
It’s a difficult position, to know what you could have and not be happy. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
6. ‘That’s wonderfully sensitive… especially from a man who wears such tight pants.’ From ‘Music and Lyrics’
Funny. I love that she pokes fun at Hugh Grant’s character in this movie.
5. ‘Excuse me. I have to go die now.’
From ‘Never Been Kissed’
We’ve all been there, so embarrassed you don’t know what to do and you just want to curl up in a ball and disappear. It’s a terrible feeling.
4. ‘The media made me out to be this hard, terrible person who doesn’t care. The thing is, I feel very remorseful.’
From ‘The Amy Fisher Story’
An interesting perspective. The other side really, because the media does create whatever take or angle it wants to and often won’t let the opposing side voice their actual feelings.
3. ‘Not porno tongue. Church tongue.’
From ‘The Wedding Singer’
I didn’t realise there was such a thing as church tongue.
2. ‘Eileen, you don’t have to throw yourself at the first old fart that comes along.’
From ‘Bad Girls’
Funny and you can instantly tell what these girls are up to, using the age-old method of, sex sells.
1. ‘Let me quote myself. One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is three or four big days that change everything.’ From ‘Riding in Cars With Boys’
This is pretty true, when you think about it. A few different days in your life shape the rest of your life and change you as a person. These might be good events, they might be bad events, but you are never the same afterwards and that, to a great extent, determines your future.
