Quotes from Josh Hutcherson

I'm persistent.

My personal style has seen so many highs and lows. Probably more lows than highs.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both.

I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?'

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.

I'm pretty simple, I don't use a hairbrush or a certain kind of hair product.

Oh, I am a prompt person!

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'

I've met guys all the time that I'm like, Damn, that's a good-looking guy, you know?

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

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.

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.

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