Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

“Don't worry about the bitches. That could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

— Jennifer Lawrence

I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.'”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb."”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Eating is one of my favorite parts of the day”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Be strong. Don't be a follower. Always do the right thing.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Everything that we think comes across in our eyes. Our eyes really are the windows to our souls, and that's why at least I can tell when somebody doesn't mean what they're saying - if you just look at them in the eye.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“We hould totally make out right now”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumours! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like, "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner."”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I want a pizza with my face on it.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“At the end of the day, there's probably nothing that makes me feel better than junk food and reality TV.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I've never considered failure.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I could really do it. I didn't even graduate from school.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Why can't I say anything normal?”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“What does it say, 'I beat Meryl,'”

— Jennifer Lawrence

I think all mothers are a nightmare - i don't think you can have children and not lose your goddamn mind.

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

I had to have running training because I'm not a very good runner. I run weird. The hardest stunt is probably basic running. And trying not to hit myself in the face with my bow, are my two greatest challenges.

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Don't go see the movies, I'm a troll. I think the movie was great, but their biggest mistake was me.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.

— Jennifer Lawrence

When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I feel like I got a ticket to go to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I'm 100 percent confident in. I know what I'm doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I'm on set, that's when I feel the most at home and in control.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this a job. They think that it's about them, and it's not.

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you're having conversations with people, you don't want them to remember you as the girl with the tits, You want them to pay attention to what you're saying”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f
k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF.

— Jennifer Lawrence

“There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman'”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals ... I would call me more of a monkey.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes - that it changes so fast.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

— Jennifer Lawrence

“I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Being inappropriate comes easy to me.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing ... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

— Jennifer Lawrence