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Art & Creativity Quote by Jennifer Lawrence

"Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her"

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Jennifer Lawrence turns the set into a punchline and a boundary line at the same time. The opening, "Nothing's sacred anymore", plays like mock lament, but it’s also a sly acknowledgment of how celebrity erodes privacy: once you’re famous enough, even the weirdest, most intimate work details become public property. She’s not confessing so much as preempting. If you’re going to stare, she’ll narrate first.

The anecdote about being painted nude is delivered with sleepover logic: intimacy by repetition, awkwardness turned into camaraderie. That framing matters. Nude scenes are routinely sold as either titillation or trauma; Lawrence offers a third lane - labor. Months of daily painting becomes routine, almost procedural, and the "bizarre sleepover" line makes the situation legible without glamorizing it. It’s girlhood language applied to an adult industry, collapsing the distance between a highly curated movie set and the everyday way women talk to each other to survive uncomfortable situations.

Then she lands the cultural jab: "It's what you guys imagine we do". The "you guys" is doing heavy work, calling out the audience’s voyeurism and the tabloid imagination that treats actresses as communal objects. The last image - "seven pairs of hands all over her" - is deliberately blunt, almost grotesque. She’s naming the erotic fantasy to strip it of seduction, reminding listeners that what reads as fantasy from the seats is, up close, choreography, consent, and a lot of people literally doing their jobs.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lawrence, Jennifer. (2026, January 16). Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nothings-sacred-anymore-those-girls-and-i-got-so-86294/

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Lawrence, Jennifer. "Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nothings-sacred-anymore-those-girls-and-i-got-so-86294/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nothings-sacred-anymore-those-girls-and-i-got-so-86294/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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

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