Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Back when I was in elementary school, I didn't have many friends.

I was not the popular kid in school.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they're your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in.

One of the big factors in me going to an independent school was the bullying at junior school. But it wasn't an easy choice for my parents. And now, I do have issues with independent schools.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

I was ostracized by my community.

I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

I remember the first time that I realized that being black meant that I wasn't allowed certain things. It was in the fourth grade, and it was who I thought was my best friend not inviting me to his birthday party because I would be the only black kid there. It was the first time I ever felt restricted, and it certainly wasn't the last time.

As a child, I was a victim of bullying because of my cultural background. I didn't look like all the other kids. I had a funny name.

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

From now on, gang, we won't let Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

If you're not popular, then everyone is not wanting anything to do with you, or not answering the phone.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.