Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.

Anurag was always too passionate about 'Raman Raghav 2.0' to care about anything else. There never was a 'Bombay Velvet' hangover.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.

I'm really open to anything that's good. If I read something and it's good, and I like the director, it never really needs to be a specific type of character.

As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.

Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors and amazing actors, and just always pushing the envelope on what I can do, as an actor.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.