Jennifer Lawrence
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Movies
The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.
I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.
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.
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.
I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.
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.
Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
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.
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.
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!
I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'
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.
Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.
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?'
Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.
I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.
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.'
I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.Collection: Expectations
Be strong. Don't be a follower. Always do the right thing.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Strong
I’m a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it.Collection: Worry
"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb."Collection: Life
Being inappropriate comes easy to me.Collection: Inappropriate
If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.Collection: Lying
In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! 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!"Collection: Girl
If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures.Collection: Want
Eating is one of my favorite parts of the dayCollection: Eating
I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.Collection: Ambition
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.Collection: Cutting
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.Collection: Mean
I think that people are built the way that they’re built. There’s that Kate Moss quote that’s like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ and I can name a lot of things that taste better than skinny feels: bread, potatoes … a Philly cheesesteak and fries.Collection: Thinking
You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.Collection: Laughing
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.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Lying
I've always loved food too much to be a model.Collection: Too Much
I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for.Collection: Sorry
People call me fat, but I don't care. I don't want to starve myself cause I am beautiful the way I am.Collection: Beautiful
I'm excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty.Collection: Sexy
When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.Collection: Lying
People treating you differently, when you don't feel any different, is really alienating.Collection: People