Jennifer Lawrence turned 25 on August 15. The refreshingly honest Oscar-winning actress has said some hilarious things over the years. Parade.com celebrates her birthday with some of our favorite quotes.
“I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and everyone’s got their newspapers and they’re on the computer, and I’m like, ‘Can I get a coloring book, please? Can I get some crayons?’” —to Jimmy Fallon
“I never play characters that are like me because I’m a boring person. I wouldn’t want to see me in a movie.” —to The Sun
“… I tell my friends to slap me if they ever think I’m getting full of myself.”—to Britain’s Mirror
“Anybody who makes fun of me, I’m just gonna go, ‘Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman’.” —telling Extra about taking a fall before accepting her Silver Linings Playbook Oscar
“It’s so scary. And then I end up getting so nervous that I get like [I am] now. I get really hyper…‘I’m like a chihuahua! I’m shaking and peeing!’ —telling David Letterman about the madness of the red carpet
“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.”—to E!
“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!” —sharing her celebrity childhood crush to Yahoo!
“It will be the best thing that ever happened. But don’t be an idiot, do a sex tape, do drugs. And go to Whole Foods when your movie opens.” —sharing her guidance for Shailene Woodley to Vanity Fair
“I have the street smarts and survival skills of… a poodle.” —when www.jeannewolfshollywood.com asked Lawrence if she could survive the Hunger Games
“I don’t know where it is. I think it might be in Kentucky. I hope it’s in Kentucky. If not, it’s gone. I don’t have it.” —telling the Spanish magazine Acción Cine where she keeps her Oscar.
“I think that people are built the way that they’re built. There’s that Kate Moss quote that’s like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ and I can name a lot of things that taste better than skinny feels: bread, potatoes … a Philly cheesesteak and fries.”—Entertainment Tonight
“I put it in the hallway towards the bathroom, and my mom was like, ‘I’m taking it. It shouldn’t be here.’ And now it’s on a piano in Kentucky!” —sharing more Oscar details to Access Hollywood
“If I were just your average 23-year-old girl and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action.” —describing the paparazzi to Vogue
“I think any time a girl has to show her thighs, it’s never going to be her favorite look. I love the dress…if someone else wore it.” —talking to Good Morning America about the thigh revealing Dior gown she wore to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere
“If anybody even tries to whisper the word ‘diet,’ I’m like, ‘You can go f– yourself.”—to Harper’s Bazaar on being called overweight.
“I was surprised at how little camel toe problem there was. I was expecting a lot more.”—telling E! about her Hunger Games: Catching Fire costume.
“I stopped at Harvey Weinstein’s party for a little bit, got my parents drunk, and then I left and went home.” —describing her Oscar partying to ABC News
“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.’” —telling Conan O’Brien about meeting John Stamos
“I’m a horrible dancer! I’m like a dad at prom. I look like Gumby getting electrocuted.”—Lawrence on twerking in The Baltimore Sun
“In Hollywood, I’m obese. I’m considered a fat actress.” —talking about her weight to Elle magazine
David Letterman: How did you learn to act so well?
Jennifer Lawrence: I was a big liar when I was child. I was just like a pathological liar when I was a kid. I think I just wanted to one-up somebody. Somebody would be like, ‘Oh, God, my legs hurt.’ I’d be like, ‘Your legs hurt? I’m getting mine amputated next week.’ And that’s actually how my mother found out. She came to school and somebody was like, ‘God, that’s such a shame about Jennifer’s legs.’ She made me purge. I had to spill out all of my lies. I was like, ‘I said that Dad drove a barge, and we were millionaires, and you were pregnant, I had to get my legs amputated, and I spayed cats and dogs on the weekends.’ Now I can’t lie. Now I get anxiety over it. It’s a good thing.
