With every single role, you're not going to get a role unless you invest your whole heart into it.

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.

I put all my sighs in a lockbox

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.