Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

Jennifer Lawrence is so talented and so lovely. She has a real ability to connect with people. ~ Julianne Moore

Apart from anything else, I got to work with Jennifer Lawrence. She's a lovely girl. I know people often say things like that in interviews, but she really is. While she may be young, she doesn't feel at all precocious. Instead, she's smart and funny and terrific at connecting with people. She just blew me away. ~ Julianne Moore

Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman' ~ Jennifer Lawrence

What's great about working with EPIX is that we have unparalleled access to the top movie talent and do exclusive 1:1 sit-down interviews with the actors, sometimes before anyone else does. With 'The Hunger Games,' we had our own studio set up and did 1:1s with Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Lenny Kravitz, etc. ~ Carly Steel

I'm a woman that's living in this world of everybody telling everyone how they should look, and what they should be eating and how people can lose this much weight this fast, and it just kind of overwhelms our senses. If I could just make the tiniest bit of difference in getting rid of that because it is so annoying, I would love that. ~ 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

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 am the biggest "but why?" question asker. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

You have a choice. You don't have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good. You can be good. Let's just make that choice and - it feels better. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I like the financial security because I know how hard it is for so many people who struggle to earn a living. I'm grateful I don't have to worry about money and I can live very freely and do something I love and get paid very well to do it. I tell my friends to slap me if they ever think I'm getting full of myself. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

My run is so weird. That's what I'm most nervous about in this whole ordeal. I'm most nervous about everybody making fun of the way I run. I do, like, karate hands. Instead of running with my hands closed together like a normal person. It's like I'm trying to be aerodynamic or something, so my hands are straight like razors. Karate hands. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?' ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head. ~ 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 run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I don't like going out that much. I'm kind of an old lady. After it's 11, I'm like, 'Don't these kids ever get tired?' When I'm out, I think about my couch. Like, 'It would be awesome to be on it right now. I bet there's an episode of Dance Moms on. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice. ~ Willow Shields

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I was going to come in and push you down the stairs ... ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I think Jennifer Lawrence seems to really get it right when she's on the red carpet. ~ Henrik Lundqvist

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

My family went on a cruise, and I got a terrible haircut. FYI: Never get your hair cut on a cruise. And I had, like, this blonde curly 'fro, and I walked into the gym the first day back in seventh grade and everyone was staring at me, and for some reason I thought, I know what I need to do! And I just started sprinting from one end of the gym to the other, and I thought it was hilarious. But nobody else at that age really did. It was genuinely weird ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I hate saying, 'I like exercising' - I want to punch people who say that. ~ 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

They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like ... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here. ~ 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

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

My agent called me at 5:30am, and I thought the set of my movie had burned down, or Josh [Hutcherson] had died, or something ... I didn't realize! I was so tired! ~ 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'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform. ~ Jennifer Armintrout

The top stars like Angelina, Cameron (Diaz), Sandra Bullock and probably now Jennifer Lawrence probably gets paid the same as their male counterparts. The problem is the averages. Because there are not enough parts for women to star in and get paid. So when you look at the total amount women make as compared to men it's paltry. ~ Amy Pascal

I love Photoshop more than anything in the world! ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I'm an actress, don't age me. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

When we were kids, we would never open the minibar. A $6 Snickers bar? But the other day I was in a hotel and I was staring at a Snickers bar, and I finally just ate it. Then it was like something in me snapped. I opened all these drinks. I thought: I can do it now. Now I'm all grown-up. I can eat things from the minibar. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them to look up to Rey and what she represents would be fantastic. She's a wonderful character ... The reason I love her so much is she does all the fun stuff. She fights, runs and protects herself and has an incredible emotional story. ~ Daisy Ridley

I think Jennifer Lawrence is that inside of herself. As long as I've known her she's been both 10 years old and 50 years old. And we've watched her grow up since she walked on "Silver Linings Playbook" as a 20-year-old and had not been - "Hunger Games" had not come out. And I've watched her have to take on and deal with a great deal of attention and resources and people. ~ David O. Russell

I like to adapt to a director's way of working. I love doing that. Each director is so different, and you have to adapt to this new way of doing something. That's what's amazing to me. That's why I love directors. I don't want to director to have to work around me. I think it's more fun for me to come in on their thing. ~ 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 interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave." ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few? ~ Jennifer Lawrence

If you have the choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always less stressful. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I've got five or six amazing friends that I trust and love, I know exactly who I am and don't care about anything else. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

It's so scary. And then I end up getting so nervous that I get like [I am] now. I get really hyper. [Squeals.] So then I go in interviews and I'm like, 'I'm like a chihuahua! I'm shaking and peeing!' And then afterwards, I'm like, 'I just talked about peeing on the red carpet.' ~ 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

You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

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 like anything Jennifer Lawrence is in. She's so beautiful. ~ Clark Gregg

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

You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

My iCloud keeps telling me to back it up, and I'm like, I don't know how to back you up. Do it yourself. ~ 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

Grace Kelly is my main inspiration, for her timeless beauty. I like Jennifer Lawrence for her fun, down-to-earth style, and Taylor Swift is always elegant. ~ Gracie Gold

I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I never leave my house. Then I don't have to put a bra on, and I don't have to change my pants. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

My breasts have a life of their own. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

What does it say, 'I beat Meryl,' ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

The changes that happened in my life from doing these movies are so permanent that I don't think I'll ever really say goodbye, it'll always be a part of me, the Hunger Games. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react, ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I guess my main worry is that people will start hating what I hate about myself. I worry that everyone will think I am really annoying and just want me to shut up. Which would make so much sense because I annoy myself ... I guess I want people to know that if they are annoyed with me, I get it, it's totally cool. Please forgive me. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Without my family I would be nothing. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I remember during Oscar season, the thing I hated most was being talked to differently; people treat you differently. And then I suddenly understood why celebrities can be so weird; it's hard to act normal when no-one treats you normally. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it's not worth it. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Yeah, I screamed in [Daniel Radcliffe's] face. We were both doing Letterman. I grabbed him by the shoulder. Of course, I'm in 6-inch heels. That makes me 6-foot-4. I'm towering over him, saying, 'I love Harry Potter!' His security people were nodding to each other - should we go? ~ Jennifer Lawrence

More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She's an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful. ~ Maria Sharapova

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

The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than the dating rumors that have been circling around that were fake. If somebody thinks I'm going to dress sexy to a costume party, they have another thing coming. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to any director because I don't really have a set way that I do things. If a director hires me and says, "I want you to get started right now and do this research, this research, this research and I want you to have every line memorized before you ever show up for the first day," then that's what I'll do. ~ 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 don't think Jennifer Lawrence deserves to be in this category [leading role]? Joy is a great movie, obviously. She's a great actress and I don't want to take anything from her, but it ain't American Hustle. ~ Bun B.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece. ~ 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'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

If you have the opportunity to help, then you have the responsibility to do it, do what is right simply because it is the right thing to do ~ 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'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices. ~ Claire Danes

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've been friends with all these people for so many years now ... . I'm so lucky to have Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] and Woody [Harrelson] and all these other great people. We've created really strong bonds. It's like high school because we'll mess around for half the day and then we'll do a little bit of work. Everyone's goofing around and trying to mess each other up. ~ Liam Hemsworth

"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

If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense. ~ 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

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

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I was just like a pathological liar when I was a kid. I think I just wanted to one-up somebody. Somebody would be like, 'Oh, God, my legs hurt.' I'd be like, 'Your legs hurt? I'm getting mine amputated next week.' And that's actually how my mother found out. She came to school and somebody was like, 'God, that's such a shame about Jennifer's legs.' She made me purge. I had to spill out all of my lies. I was like, 'I said that Dad drove a barge, and we were millionaires, and you were pregnant, I had to get my legs amputated, and I spayed cats and dogs on the weekends.' Now I can't lie. ~ 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 going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you. ~ Jennifer Lawrence