Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

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

You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

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.

I hate people who say, "Oh, I'm addicted to working out". I just want to punch those people in the face.

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

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

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!

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."

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

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

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

I want people to have less me.

I don't like going out that much. When I'm out, I think about my couch.

How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?'

People call me fat, but I don't care. I don't want to starve myself cause I am beautiful the way I am.

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.

I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.

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

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.

A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.

A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.

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.

"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.

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

It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside.

Why can't I say anything normal?

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.

In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for.

I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit.

There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

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.

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?

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

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

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

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

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

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.

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.

I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool, so then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl who's wearing an ugly dress.

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

You look how you look

I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?

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

It's better to look strong and healthy.

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.