Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.

I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock.

When you think hotness appeal, vampires automatically fall into that category.

I play Peeta. That's his name. It was given to him by his parents. He comes from a long line of bread. His sister is Rye. And his brother is Whole Wheat.

Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

One of the fans had a poster that said, 'I'm a Peeta-file. That was probably the best one.

I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.

Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty—stupid me for going along with it.

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.