Quotes from Jennifer Lawrence

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.

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

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.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

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.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Without my family, I would be nothing.

I've always loved food too much to be a model.

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

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

I never leave my house. Then I don't have to put a bra on, and I don't have to change my pants.

Why can't I say anything normal?

Sometimes I feel like a vampire

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

I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?