28 of J-Law’s best, well, J-Lawisms
America's motor-mouthed sweetheart; Jennifer Lawrence's complete lack of filter and off-the-cuff honesty is fast-making her our favourite Hollywood star, like, EVER! Here are just a handful of her greatest ever quotes.
Getty ImagesOn the internet
"You try being 22, having a period and staying away from Google. I once Googled ‘Jennifer Lawrence Ugly,’… Do I sound bitchy?”
Getty ImagesOn what people say to her on the street
"Generally people are really nice. Sometimes someone will shout, 'You're a dirty whore!' But I think that would happen anyway. I guess I should probably dress better.”
Getty ImagesOn Bradley Cooper
"He's fluent in French, very impressive. And he's hilarious. It's too bad he's so ugly."
Rex FeaturesOn red carpet hunger
"I'm seeing you talk, and all I'm thinking about is me pissed that I didn't get fries."
PA PhotosOn cruise ship haircuts
"My family went on a cruise, and I got a terrible haircut. FYI: Never get your hair cut on a cruise."
PA PhotosOn her “bouncing” assets
“I think people are fascinated with breasts that bounce. They are so used to seeing [fake ones]. People are confused [that mine bounce]! My breasts have a life of their own.”
PA PhotosOn her weight
"I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life."
PA PhotosTo Jack Nicholson when he said she looked like his old girlfriend
“Oh really, do I look like a new girlfriend?”
Getty ImagesOn her style icon status
"I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals. [It's like], 'Dance, monkey, dance' right on the red carpet.' I would call me more of a monkey."
PA PhotosOn being called fat
“If anybody even tries to whisper the word 'diet,' I'm like, 'You can go f– yourself."
PA PhotosOn her childhood crush
"Justin Timberlake. Early 90s Justin Timberlake. I remember buying the ‘N Sync CD. Remember how CDs had the pullout picture things? I got so overwhelmed with hormones I almost threw up!"
Rex FeaturesSaid to camera at the Oscars about Emma Stone
“Your ass is mine, Stone!"
PA PhotosOn actor John Stamos
"He was at a party, and I turned into a perverted guy. I was like following him into rooms and staring at his ass...He asked me if I was on mushrooms and I said, 'No. I'm dead sober. This is just me.'"
PA PhotosAccepting her People’s Choice Award
“I wish this was like Mean Girls and I could just break this up and throw it at all of you!”
Getty ImagesOn dancing
“I’m a horrible dancer! I’m like a dad at prom. I look like Gumby getting electrocuted.”
PA PhotosHer advice for kids today
“Don’t worry about the bitches in school — that could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life.”
Rex FeaturesOn ‘the business’
“Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies. It’s stupid.”
Facebook/ Jennifer LawrenceOn fame
“I tell my friends to slap me if they ever think I’m getting full of myself.”
On what Hunger Games character she would play, if not Katniss
“I would be Wes Bentley’s beard.”
Interrupting Josh Hutcherson’s red carpet interview
“Is your rash doing okay?”
Rex FeaturesOn getting a role she wants
“It’s like, ‘Please give me this part! I’ll boil a rabbit!’”
Rex FeaturesOn getting starstruck
“One time someone was introducing me to Bill Maher, and I saw Meryl Streep walk into the room, and I literally put my hand right in Bill Maher’s face and said, ‘Not now, Bill!’ and I just stared at Meryl Streep… I just creepily stared at her.”
Rex FeaturesAnd getting starstruck some more
“Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just stared at them. I stared at both of them. And they were like, ‘Alright, fine.’”
Rex FeaturesOn days off
“If I don’t have anything to do all day, I might not even put pants on.”
Getty ImagesAfter a coughing fit on a Stateside chat show David Letterman
“Sorry! That was phlegm. That was so powerful. I’m like a dragon!”
Rex FeaturesOn Stateside chat show Chelsea Lately
“Backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think your staff think I have diarrhoea.”
PA PhotosOn working out
“I hate saying, ‘I like exercising’ - I want to punch people who say that.”
Rex FeaturesWoody Harrelson recalling his first meeting with J-Law
“I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifer comes on, and she goes, ‘Hi, Woody, I’m J– is that a sex swing?’ Her first sentence to me.”
PA PhotosHer acceptance speech after tripping onstage at the Oscars
“You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell and that’s really embarrassing, but thank you.”
