Interview Quotes

Reflections on Early Fame and Backlash

"Everybody loves you. What does that feel like? And I was like, it feels like precarious."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 00:17:14

"But a lot has changed since she won an Oscar 12 years ago and tripped up the stairs on the way to get her statue."

— Narrator • 00:26:35

"But when I sat down with her, I was struck by how scarred she seemed from her early fame and the backlash she got over her political advocacy."

— Narrator • 00:36:43

"I think when I remember when I was nominated for Silver Linings and somebody was like, everybody loves you. What does that feel like? And I was like, it feels like precarious, you know, like I'm waiting for it because like it's not, you know, it's going to come down."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 11:17:30

"And then I fell getting my Oscar and then the next year, I remember the moment and I was waving to fans and I tripped on a cone and I remember being like, fuck, that's it. Like nobody's going to believe that. Nobody's going to believe that I fell two years in a row."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 11:30:44

"Yeah, I didn't. And so that became, I was just like, yeah, that's, I'm fucked. And I was, everybody just kind of thought that meant everything that I did was fake and it was like all a shtick. This is how it felt to me. That I just kind of got like found out as this like fraud."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 11:44:10

"I just was sick of doing this and doing interviews is really scary. Like, I'm very blessed. I'm very lucky. I'm very grateful. I have a great job. But it's terrifying. Like you finish an interview and, or, you know, you're gearing up to release a film and it's like, you know, the circus tent, the curtains are opening. And it's just like, you're putting yourself out there and you're putting yourself out there to be picked apart."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 12:14:38

"I mean, now that I'm in my 30s and a mom, I can see how young I was. Like when I meet a 23-year-old now, I mean, think about a 23-year-old. They're children."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 10:45:02

"I think I've also grown up and yeah, I'm a lot more nervous about whatever I say publicly. I try not to, you know, I don't want to like give an interview that's like a bunch of like sound bites and like a word salad."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 13:25:49

The Film "Die, My Love" and Motherhood

"In it, she plays a young woman who's being driven mad by motherhood."

— Narrator • 00:32:45

"It's definitely about somebody losing her identity and motherhood and rage at not just her husband, but the change of the relationship, the change of the love."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 01:02:59

"I saw the forest as more of like a cleansing."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 04:15:36

"She's really depressed. Yeah. She's really, she's really unhappy. She's really angry."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 05:03:15

"And when I watched it back after having my second child and actually experiencing postpartum depression, that was a really, really weird experience."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 05:48:35

"I felt like a tiger was chasing me every day. I've had so much anxiety. I was so, I had nonstop intrusive thoughts that I was just like at the, at the whim of, they like controlled me."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 07:20:10

"I think more of what I kind of brought into the headspace is the feeling of just never feeling like you're doing it right."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 08:43:20

"Having kids is sacrificial and it's gratifying and it's amazing and rewarding. It's all of the things, but it's not, not sacrificial."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 09:47:58

"My kids and my family are more important, obviously, but they feel like equal parts of me, like an equal part. Like I would not be complete if I couldn't make movies."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 10:06:05

"There's this freedom of vanity in a way because I'm pregnant and it's my second. Like I really was not adequately prepared for how, I was like, oh, I'll just be like four or five months."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 12:53:26

"I mean, I do have moments where I'm like, what technically are the differences between me and a prostitute? But it doesn't keep me up at night."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 13:13:15

"I'm very good at attacking myself. I can find every angle."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 13:21:05

On Authenticity and Public Persona

"You were a very thoughtful person. Thank you again."

— Lulu Garcia Navarro • 14:41:20

"You know, it's easy for me to see it when it's happening, you know, when somebody does a Woody Allen movie and they only ask the women, you know, well, how do you feel about working with Woody Allen? You know, and you can just watch it. You can just watch not one male actor get asked that question."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 14:05:55

"And also I think there is something, I don't know what it is, it's really easy to hate women viciously in a way that it's almost like we have this ire in us that specifically there's like an extra pocket for it."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 14:18:00

"I never at any point felt like this is unfair because of my gender. I felt like this is unfair because you created this."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 14:30:30

Working with Directors and the Craft of Acting

"I stay loose. I think David O. Russell really taught me how to—I think because of David, I've never really—it's never really mattered what the director's kind of methodology is."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 15:07:35

"She's Teflon, sort of saying that you don't absorb some of that stuff."

— Narrator • 15:25:30

"I mean, yes, of course I'm sensitive. I'm really sensitive. I was about to say, we've literally had this entire conversation about how sensitive you are."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 15:55:30

"I'm not competitive about acting. My husband is always really amazed. Because I am so competitive. Like, when we play tennis, I throw my racket. I scream. I rage."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 16:35:10

"I'll probably do what I always do, which is panic and then try to get in touch with, like, an acting teacher. And then meet the acting teacher and then never see them again. That is my process."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 17:37:50

"And I would see Christian, who didn't, like, it's not like he stayed in character, like, all day or anything. Like, nothing. He just, when the crew started getting ready, you know, like, and the lights started getting ready and the sound, and it became clear we were going to start rolling soon. And he would kind of slowly start getting ready. And then I was like, that seems like a good idea."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 18:58:25

Political Advocacy and Artistic Expression

"As we've learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 19:41:10

"I want to protect my craft so that you can still get lost in what I'm doing, what I'm showing. And if I can't say something that's going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature or some sort of solution, I just don't want, I don't want to be a part of the problem. I don't want to make the problem worse."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 20:24:00

"I try to express myself and my politics through my work. I made a documentary called Bread and Roses about the Taliban re-takeover in Afghanistan and Zorofsky versus Texas about the abortion ban. Pretty much a lot of my movies coming out from my production company are expressions of the political landscape."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 21:36:30

"I regret everything I've ever done or said, but."

— Jennifer Lawrence • 21:56:15