Drew Barrymore Net Worth

Drew Barrymore's Quotes

• I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?
• There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
• If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.
• I believe in fate. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how you learn.
• I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.

Interesting Facts about Drew Barrymore

1. She was, at seven years old, the youngest person ever to host. She was the Guest Host for Saturday Night Live (1975) when viewers voted that Andy Kaufman would never be allowed to return to the show.
2. Never finished high school.
3. Originally offered the lead role in Scream (1996) but chose to play Casey Becker because she thought this would be more fun.
4. Engaged to Jamie Walters from May 1992 to November 1993.
5. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997]
6. Daughter of John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore. Half-sister of Jessica, Blyth Dolores and John Blyth Barrymore. Niece of actress Diana Barrymore. Granddaughter of actor John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, on her father's side. Great-granddaughter of silent film actor Maurice Costello and Mae Costello. Great-niece of famed actors, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore.
7. Her father had English, Irish, and German ancestry, and her mother is of Hungarian descent.
8. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36. [1984]
9. Steven Spielberg gave her a quilt for her birthday with a note "Cover yourself up". Enclosed was a copy of the January 1995 issue of Playboy Magazine for which she posed nude, with the pictures altered by Spielberg's art department so that she appeared fully clothed.
10. Her favorite poet is e.e. cummings.
11. Her godmothers are Sophia Loren and Anna Strasberg.
12. As a child, she auditioned for the role of Carol Ann Freeling in Poltergeist (1982), which went to the late Heather O'Rourke.
13. She was formerly a vegan: "I don't eat a ton of meat, and I don't wear a ton of leather, but I just don't put strict limitations on myself anymore.".
14. Was offered the leading role of Nomi Malone in Showgirls (1995), which she turned down because she felt uncomfortable with the explicit nudity displayed in the script.
15. Her $3-million Beverly Hills mansion caught fire while she and fiance Tom Green were inside sleeping. The couple were able to safely exit, but the house was ruined. [February 2001]
16. During an appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996), she said that she never watches any of the movies she stars in.
17. In 1990, at the time completing her autobiographic book titled "Little Girl Lost" she was age 14.
18. Began a relationship with Tom Green in February 2000, before getting engaged to him in July 2000. They married on July 7, 2001, but separated in December 2001 after just five months of marriage. Their divorce was finalized in October 2002.
19. Ranked #61 in Premiere magazine's annual Power 100 List (2001).
20. In honour of Bill Clinton turning 50, John Kennedy Jr. had Drew pose as Marilyn Monroe on the cover of his magazine, "George", with the heading, "Happy Birthday, Mr. President", which Marilyn Monroe sang to his father at the now-infamous May 19, 1962 birthday salute to President John F. Kennedy. [September 1996]