a mess of a dreamer

JENNIFER LAWRENCE attends the “Anatomy Of A Fall” red carpet during the 76th annual Cannes film festival in Cannes, France (May 21, 2023)

Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the 26th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on January 24, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.

Jennifer Lawrence photographed by Thomas Lohr

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth in The Hunger Games photocalls through the years

“It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe that we even live in that kind of world.”

Jennifer Lawrence on her nude picture leak (Vanity Fair)

“I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.”

“I’d like to direct at some point. But I don’t know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I’d be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.”

I think it gets so much easier to let things roll off your back. It’s such a business of hurry up and wait, and if you let it get to you it will drive you absolutely insane. Like, ‘Why was I called in at four in the morning and I haven’t been used until one in the afternoon?’ And ‘Why are we shooting this a million times when we have five other scenes to shoot?’ But you get to the point where you just say ‘This is filmmaking. This is what you get paid for. Everybody is doing the best they can. It’s what you have to live with.

It’s an honor and an overwhelming compliment, but it’s also a kind of bizarre thing. All of a sudden you’re at these parties and everybody’s famous, and you feel like a loser.