Top 160 Jennifer Lawrence Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “I learned that you can’t have any expectations with life. You never know what’s going to happen.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

53. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

55. “As soon as somebody farts around me, I think it’s hilarious. This is something my brothers did that now the boys at work are obsessed with. You cup it, and then you throw it in someone’s face and say, ‘Take a bite out of that cheeseburger!’”

— Jennifer Lawrence

56. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

57. “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

58. “Sometimes I feel like a vampire.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

59. “I’m sorry, I just did a shot.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “Everyone’s brain works in a different way. I didn’t feel smart in school; I just didn’t get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

68. “There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn’t have a good director, it won’t be that.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

69. “It was really impulsive. I was just like, I’m cutting it! And then it was just all gone.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

70. “If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don’t do it, it’s very simple.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

71. “Eating is one of my favorite parts of the day.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

72. “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

73. “I’m doing what I love, and then I get months and months of rest. I have a lot of money for a 21-year old. I can’t stand it when actors complain.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

74. “I’ve always loved food too much to be a model.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

75. “I hate people who say, “Oh, I’m addicted to working out”. I just want to punch those people in the face.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

76. “My breasts have a life of their own.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

77. “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

78. “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

79. “I jumped out the back of a bus because everyone told me I wouldn’t.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

80. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

81. “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

82. “I had to learn how to chop wood actually – I don’t think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it’s so embarrassing.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

89. “The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

91. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

93. “I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I’m okay with blood and guts.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

94. “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

95. “What does it say, ‘I beat Meryl,’”

— Jennifer Lawrence

96. “I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

97. “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

98. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

100. “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