I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

An author's job is to make you aware of your feelings while you continue to feel them.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.