Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

I never studied. I was too afraid. I thought that if an acting teacher had said to me, "You know what, you're not good," I would not have gone any further. It was easier for me to justify going to an audition and getting rejected, maybe because they wanted somebody blonde, maybe because I wasn't experienced enough. I could live with that more easily.

It's fun to play somebody who's kind of struggling.

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who you are, and you can use more and more of yourself. The lines between that character that I'm playing and myself become more and more blurred and, after awhile, they just disappear, altogether.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.

My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.

I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I write to be the characters that I am not.