Top 160 Jennifer Lawrence Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I was a weirdo. I wasn’t picked on or anything. And I wasn’t smarter than the other kids; that’s not why I didn’t fit in. I’ve always had this weird anxiety. I hated recess. I didn’t like field trips. Parties really stressed me out. And I had a very different sense of humour.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

102. “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

103. “I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you’re having conversations with people, you don’t want them to remember you as the girl with the tits, You want them to pay attention to what you’re saying.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

104. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

106. “Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I’m 100 percent confident in. I know what I’m doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I’m on set, that’s when I feel the most at home and in control.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

108. “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

109. “This isn’t like an auction, right? You guys aren’t going to take it away?”

— Jennifer Lawrence

110. “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

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

112. “You don’t go your whole life without laughing. It’s just life.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

113. “If I don’t have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

114. “I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren’t telling a story that I felt was important. And what I discovered in the process is, it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else’s reality and you learn to see through many other people’s eyes.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

115. “How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, ‘How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?’”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

117. “I think all mothers are a nightmare – i don’t think you can have children and not lose your goddamn mind.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

118. “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

119. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

120. “I am the biggest “but why?” question asker.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

122. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

123. “I love Photoshop more than anything in the world!”

— Jennifer Lawrence

124. “I don’t like going out that much. When I’m out, I think about my couch.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

125. “I’m not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don’t have the maturity.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

129. “Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?”

— Jennifer Lawrence

130. “If anyone wants to know the weirdest thing, it’s getting your hair cut and seeing it on the news. Terrorists probably knew about my haircut.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

131. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

133. “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.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

134. “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

135. “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

136. “It’s hard to do, but I think it’s really important to go back and watch yourself.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

137. “Anybody that makes fun of me, I’m like, ‘Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman’”

— Jennifer Lawrence

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138. “Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that’s what you should do: represent the book.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

139. “Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

140. “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

141. “I was going to come in and push you down the stairs...”

— Jennifer Lawrence

142. “I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We’re way past autographs. We’re into being stalked and followed.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

143. “Anytime you’re away from your home filming, it messes with your head.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

144. “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

145. “I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

146. “When I get asked, ‘what are the differences between Twilight and THG’ I’m like, ‘Erm, what are the similarities?’”

— Jennifer Lawrence

147. “I’m the youngest in a family where I didn’t have to take responsibility for much.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

148. “There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.”

— Jennifer Lawrence

149. “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

150. “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.””

— Jennifer Lawrence