Me too!
Posted on 02/24/2018 1:22:07 PM PST by Red Badger
Jennifer Lawrence is a lot of things — Oscar winner, advocate, and Emma Stone’s biggest fan, among others — but one thing she’s not? A high school graduate.
In a preview of Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes, Lawrence, 27, opens up about her decision to forgo an education in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, for a career in Hollywood.
“I struggled through school. I never felt very smart,” says Lawrence, whose new spy thriller Red Sparrow (in theaters March 2) finds her playing a Russian intelligence officer who makes heartbreaking sacrifices at a young age. “And when I’m reading this script, and I feel like I know exactly what it would look like if somebody felt that way. That was a whole part of my brain that I didn’t even know existed — something that I could be confident in, and I didn’t want to let it go.”
“What was it you wanted so much?” asks CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker.
“It’s hard to explain. It’s just an overwhelming feeling of, ‘I get this. This is what I was meant to do,'” Lawrence says of acting. “And to get people to try to understand that when you’re 14 years old, wanting to drop out of school and do this, and your parents are just like, ‘You’re out of your mind.'”
But her parents listened to Lawrence’s instincts. “I dropped out of middle school. I don’t technically have a GED or a diploma,” she says with a smile. “I am self-educated.”
Whitaker asks if she regrets the decision. “No,” says Lawrence. “I really don’t. I wanted to forge my own path. I found what I wanted to do, and I didn’t want anything getting in the way of it. Even friends, for many years, were not as important to me as my career, I mean, from the age of 14.”
Always outspoken, Lawrence recently slammed disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for mentioning her name as a defense in his legal battles as he faces the fallout over multiple sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him. “Harvey Weinstein and his company are continuing to do what they have always done which is to take things out of context and use them for their own benefit,” Lawrence said in a statement released Thursday. “This is what predators do, and it must stop.”
And on Wednesday, Lawrence lashed out at critics of her decision to wear a revealing Versace dress while promoting Red Sparrow in London, calling their comments “sexist” and “ridiculous.”
60 Minutes airs Sundays at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Watch a preview above.
Vapid
there. fixed it.
“I struggled through school. I never felt very smart,” says Lawrence, who is presently taking a year off to fix our democracy.
Shouldn’t take more than a year.
I wish I would have dropped out of school in 7th grade before my eyes were opened to the sins so prevalent in our decadent public school system. Homeschooling would have been a better option...
...but the rest of the planet regrets said dropping out.
One stuuuuuuuupid woman.
Me too!
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
QUOTES AUTHORS ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Robert A. Heinlein Quotes and Sayings
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
i don’t look down on people, not even a little bit for not doing college or even high school.
One of the things I like about America is that we don’t discard people just because they didn’t meet the grade in a certain area. There are lots of different paths to success.
And you don’t have to agree with what most people define as success either.
“I never felt very smart.” You’re still not, honey. So, keep your political views to yourself.
And by the way, Weinstein says you a great piece of ass and he’s glad je helped you get I’m the business
She doesn’t have the money. Her lawyers, agents and financial advisors control it. She is probably on an allowance. If she’s very lucky her people will treat her ethically. If not she’ll die broke.
Well I dropped out at 15. Best thing I ever did. Went back and achieved advanced degrees on my time on my dime.
Many kids would do well if they could do what Lawrence had done. End school at 8th grade, then move into a work/study program.
Many teens are ready to begin their lives at 14 to 16 but are imprisoned in the NEA jobs program til age 18 or more.
Vapid
Yep. Just another vain female who got to her station in life based on her looks/gender and is now too stupid to know it.
“I struggled through school. I never felt very smart,” says Lawrence
(She gives this away each time she opens her mouth.)
I find it extremely frustrating that people who are so monumentally stupid, and often people who really never had to work hard, are so ridiculously rich. But that’s life.
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she may not be traditionally educated, but she ain’t stupid.
“She was 16 in middle school?!”
Really?? Did she say that?
Ping.
Yeah, I guess whatever gets Harvey off makes money. What did they used to call that?
Perhaps, but think about it. This is an example where her parents flat out exploited their child’s talent for their own short term self interest. Their is no way a middle school child can wisely make that calculation. This is not someone who had to drop out of school take in washing to support her brothers and sisters because the parents were incapacitated. They ruthlessly viewed their daughter as a commodity as a path to riches. If the “wiki bio” is to be believed at least the mother had second thoughts.
Does she understand why the founding fathers put in the second amendment?
No, she does not.
None of the kids in todays public schools understand.
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