Jennifer Lawrence No Regrets

The Oscar-winning Jennifer Lawrence has no regrets about giving up school at age 14 to pursue acting. The 27-year-old sat down with Bill Whitaker of CBS‘ 60 Minutes on Sunday to dish on her decision, explaining that she struggled in class as a youngster and “never felt very smart.”

Lawrence started modeling and when she began reading scripts, she felt like she’d finally found something she could excel at.

• “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,” she tells Whitaker. “And I didn’t want to let it go.”
• She says she left school to chase her Hollywood dream.
• Lawrence says: [“I dropped out of middle school. I don’t technically have a GED or a diploma. I am self-educated.”] SOUNDCUE (:12 OC: …self-educated.)
• On whether she regrets the decision, she is matter-of-fact: “No. 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.”
• Since turning 20, Lawrence has done two movies a year and is the youngest actress ever to be nominated for four Academy Awards.
• Separately, Lawrence also spoke out about her famous friendship with Kim Kardashian West, admitting at an event at The Wing: “It’s probably a one-sided friendship.”
• On the KarJenner crew more generally, she said: “They are smart, grounded and normal and funny. They’re very nice people, [they’re] very close, [they have a] loyal bond with one another, which I think is a positive thing to put out into the world.”