Quotes from Jennifer Lawrence

My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete.

I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.

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.

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 sit on my couch and drink and not change my pants for days at a time.

Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman'

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

It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.

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.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

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

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.

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 love Photoshop more than anything in the world!

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.

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.

I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.

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'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 don't trust a girl who doesn't have any girlfriends.