Jennifer Lawrence: How a Tomboy became a Screen Queen

Jennifer Lawrence Looks Back On A Career-Changing ‘Yes-Or-No Question’

I didn’t really have any money, so if a rat had eaten my loaf of bread, before when I first got there I [would have been] like, “Ew!” and throw the whole loaf of bread away, but eventually I was like, “God, I’m not going to be able to afford bread.” So I started just cutting around the hole that the rat ate. I got to the point where I was literally sharing food with a rat. So that’s when my parents were like, “Yeah, I think she really, really wants to do this.

Source: Npr.org