Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of step back and watch others.

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.

As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

I taught myself to listen and kind of regurgitate what I was surrounded by, and it's been a wonderful tool to have as an actor.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

And usually I'm not watching the screen. I'm kind of sitting and looking off to the side, spying on people to see what they react to' cause it's - as Joe Ranft used to say, you know, animation is like telling a joke and waiting for three years to see if anyone laughs

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.