Jennifer Lawrence Quotes & Sayings

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. — 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

When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours. — Jennifer Lawrence

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

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible. — 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

I'm a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it. — Jennifer Lawrence

I need to just find my own peace. — Jennifer Lawrence

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie. — 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

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

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

Be strong. Don't be a follower, and always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always the less stressful. — Jennifer Lawrence

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

I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life. — Jennifer Lawrence

I just went to the doctor today, I got a chest X-ray of my lungs and discovered that my breasts are uneven. — 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

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

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

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. — 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 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. — 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 really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it. — Jennifer Lawrence

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? — 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

Sometimes I feel like a vampire — 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

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy. — 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

I am ashamed to say I auditioned three times before I even watched any of the [X-Men] movies. And then after I watched the movies, I was like, Oh my God, I've been doing it all wrong, why are they calling me back? — 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

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

I want a pizza with my face on it. — Jennifer Lawrence

Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death. — Jennifer Lawrence

All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me — Jennifer Lawrence

The hardest thing about being Jennifer Lawrence is not being 'Jennifer Lawrence'. — Jennifer Lawrence

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

Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap. — Jennifer Lawrence

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. — 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

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

It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved. — Jennifer Lawrence

I'm an actress, don't age me. — 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

Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally. — 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

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. — Jennifer Lawrence

I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, 'I can't live like this'. — Jennifer Lawrence

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

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

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

I'm trying not to change. — Jennifer Lawrence

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 — Jennifer Lawrence

I'm excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty. — Jennifer Lawrence

There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself. — Jennifer Lawrence

I really love acting. I really do. I really just think of myself like a working woman. And I just go from set to set and work. You have to promote a movie; you have to work. People are going to have opinions and it's weirdly very easy to kind of block out the world because you have your own. — Jennifer Lawrence

Where are the Robert Redfords and Paul Newmans of my age group? I love James Franco, but where's the next James Franco? Where are the hunks who can act? — 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 want to sit on my couch and drink and not change my pants for days at a time, — 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

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

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 was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous. — 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 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. — 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

We hould totally make out right now — Jennifer Lawrence

I am the biggest "but why?" question asker. — 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

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

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies. — Jennifer Lawrence

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. — 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

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels ... Potatoes! Bread! — Jennifer Lawrence

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books. — Jennifer Lawrence

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

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

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school. — 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 think people are fascinated with breasts that bounce. They are so used to seeing [fake ones]. People are confused [that mine bounce]! My breasts have a life of their own. — Jennifer Lawrence

Hervey (Weinstein) thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today — Jennifer Lawrence

It's hard to do, but I think it's really important to go back and watch yourself. — Jennifer Lawrence

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

Eating is one of my favorite parts of the day — Jennifer Lawrence

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

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

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. — Jennifer Lawrence

I jumped out the back of a bus because everyone told me I wouldn't — 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

I can't hear myself. I can stare at my double chin all I want, but hearing this androgynous voice, you can't even tell what sex I am. — 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

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

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike! — Jennifer Lawrence