Quotes from Josh Hutcherson

Bullies are just ignorant.

I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

I love getting dressed up doing the whole premiere look.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

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

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

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.

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.

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

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

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.

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.

They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

I love the fan support, though, because it all comes from passion.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.