Top 160 Jennifer Lawrence Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I need to just find my own peace.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

4. “Teenagers only have to focus on themselves – its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

5. “Without my family I would be nothing.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

6. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

7. “I’m excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

8. “I’ve never considered failure.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

9. “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

10. “I want a pizza with my face on it.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

11. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

13. “Knowledge is honestly everything. It’s not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There’s also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

14. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

15. “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

16. “I was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

17. “I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and everyone’s got their newspapers and they’re on the computer, and I’m like, ‘Can I get a coloring book, please? Can I get some crayons?’”

— Jennifer Lawrence

18. “My career is one thing in my life that I don’t plan.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

19. “I’m dead sober. This is just me.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

20. “I hate saying, ‘I like exercising’ – I want to punch people who say that.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

21. “It’s better to look strong and healthy.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

22. “Well, at least I had on underwear.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

24. “I’m a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

25. “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

26. “We hould totally make out right now.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

27. “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

28. “Things can happen to you, but they don’t have to happen to your soul.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

29. “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

30. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

31. “It’s just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it’s such a stigma behind it.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

32. “I don’t trust a girl who doesn’t have any girlfriends.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

33. “I never studied acting, yet the first time I auditioned and did a cold reading, I surprised everyone for my honesty and limpidity. They told me I could play any role because I have no walls, I don’t put anything between me and the character I have to play.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

34. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

36. “People treating you differently, when you don’t feel any different, is really alienating.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

37. “When you don’t have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

38. “A bad word that I can’t say that starts with f.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

39. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

41. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

42. “I’m very, very thirsty for knowledge. Just because I’m good at something and have found success doesn’t mean I’m done. I’m not even close to being done. I don’t know if I ever will be done learning.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

43. “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

44. “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

45. “My husband is a very present husband, and that has made going to work feel easier. I don’t feel guilty. I definitely feel less guilt because I know he’s there during breakfast, lunch and supper if I’m not.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

46. “Being inappropriate comes easy to me.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

47. “I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

48. “I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

49. “I wasn’t pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn’t mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit in. And so I’d get close, but I never got anywhere, and it was really painful.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

50. “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