Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

You're not gonna give somebody more money if they don't ask for it.

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?

I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me.

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.

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.

Sometimes I feel like a vampire

Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea.

I don't trust a girl who doesn't have any girlfriends.

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

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

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

When people get more me, they'll hate me.

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

It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.

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

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

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!

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

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

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

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.

You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

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.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I never considered failure.

I want people to have less me.

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

I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

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.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

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

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

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.

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

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?

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.

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.

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.

I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have.

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.

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.

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.