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Success Quote by Jennifer Lawrence

"Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure"

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There is something almost aggressively American about the way Jennifer Lawrence airbrushes the word "failure" out of the picture: not because she is claiming she never stumbled, but because she is refusing to grant the stumble any narrative power. Starting at 14 matters here. Child actors are trained early to treat rejection as weather, not verdict. Casting is arbitrary, adults are the gatekeepers, and you either metabolize "no" fast or you wash out. Lawrence is describing a survival posture that looks like confidence from the outside and like self-protection from the inside.

The interesting subtext is how carefully the line dodges the romantic myth of fearless genius. She is not saying she has never failed; she is saying she has never "considered" failure. That verb does heavy lifting. It frames failure as a choice, almost a hobby, something you could indulge in if you had the time. The intent is image control: in a culture that loves the comeback story, she is selling the pre-comeback, the identity that never needs redemption.

Contextually, it fits Lawrence's public brand: the anti-diva who still performs excellence as inevitability. It also echoes the entertainment industry's quiet demand that performers project momentum at all times. If you're a young woman in Hollywood, "I might not make it" is rarely read as vulnerability; it's read as expendability. So the line becomes both pep talk and armor, a way to keep the machine from smelling doubt.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lawrence, Jennifer. (2026, January 16). Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/even-as-far-back-as-when-i-started-acting-at-14-i-106779/

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Lawrence, Jennifer. "Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/even-as-far-back-as-when-i-started-acting-at-14-i-106779/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/even-as-far-back-as-when-i-started-acting-at-14-i-106779/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is a Actress from USA.

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