Jennifer Lawrence has no regrets about quitting school at 14, insisting she made the decision because she believed in her dreams of becoming an actor.
The Hunger Games star revealed she left school without even picking up high school diplomat because she felt that it was important for her to pursue her acting career.
“I struggled through school,” she tells U.S. news show “60 Minutes.” “(I) never felt very smart and when I read a script and I felt like I knew exactly what it would look like if somebody felt that way (there) was a whole part of my brain that I didn't know existed. (It was) something that I could be confident in and I didn't want to let it go…
“It was just an overwhelming feeling of, ‘I get this, this is what I was meant to do!' And to get people to try to understand that when you're 14 years old, wanting to drop out of school and do this… your parents are just like, ‘You're out of your mind'.”
Jennifer Lawrence never returned to school to finish her education, but she explains that she will never look back.
“I dropped out of middle school,” she says. “I don't technically have a GED (General Educational Development) or a diploma. I am self-educated. 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.”
Lawrence's determination paid off when her break-out role in 2010 drama Winter's Bone won her international acclaim, her first of four Oscar nominations and a leading role in the Hunger Games movie franchise. She later picked up an Academy Award in 2012 for Silver Linings Playbook.
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