Quotes from Jennifer Lawrence

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

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

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.

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.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

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

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.

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

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

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.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

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 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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

You look how you look

You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

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.

They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.

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

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