R.J. Lawrence Quotes

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?'

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.

You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

The changes that happened in my life from doing these movies are so permanent that I don't think I'll ever really say goodbye, it'll always be a part of me, the Hunger Games.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I never considered failure.

I want people to have less me.

I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.

I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?

There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.

I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have.

I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I could really do it. I didn't even graduate from school.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

All experience helps when you write.

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.