Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

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.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

There's a reason why I've spent one-third of my life doing this. My dream is to meet and connect 3 billion young people of the world to information and opportunities in my lifetime.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.