Top 160 Jennifer Lawrence Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

54. “It’s beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it’s well deserved.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “Sometimes I feel like a vampire.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

63. “I’m sorry, I just did a shot.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

71. “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

72. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

79. “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

80. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

82. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

84. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

87. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

90. “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

91. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

93. “I eat like a caveman.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

94. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

95. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

97. “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

98. “All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

100. “My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, ‘Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.’ I didn’t want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.”

— Jennifer Lawrence