Josh Hutcherson credited as playing...
Peeta Mellark
- Caesar Flickerman: So, Peeta, tell me, is there a special girl back home?
- Peeta Mellark: No. No, not really.
- Caesar Flickerman: No? I don't believe it for a second. Look at that face. Handsome man like you. Peeta... tell me.
- Peeta Mellark: Well, there, uh... there is this one girl that I've had a crush on forever.
- Caesar Flickerman: Ah.
- Peeta Mellark: But I don't think she actually recognized me until the Reaping.
- Caesar Flickerman: Well, I'll tell you what, Peeta. You go out there, and you win this thing, and when you get home, she'll have to go out with you. Right, folks?
- Peeta Mellark: Thanks, but I, uh, I don't think winning's gonna help me at all.
- Caesar Flickerman: And why not?
- Peeta Mellark: Because she came here with me.
- [last lines]
- Peeta Mellark: So what happens when we get back?
- Katniss Everdeen: I don't know. I guess we try to forget.
- Peeta Mellark: I don't wanna forget.
- Peeta Mellark: You definitely smell better than I do.
- Caesar Flickerman: Well, I've lived here longer.
- Peeta Mellark: That makes sense.
- Katniss Everdeen: Listen to them.
- Peeta Mellark: Yeah. I just don't want them to change me.
- Katniss Everdeen: How will they change you?
- Peeta Mellark: I don't know. Turn me into something I'm not. I-I-I just don't want to be another piece in their game, you know?
- Katniss Everdeen: You mean you won't kill anyone?
- Peeta Mellark: No... I mean, you know, I'm sure I would just like anybody else when the time came, but I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. You know, if I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me. Does that make any sense?
- Katniss Everdeen: Yeah. I just can't afford to think like that. I have my sister.
- Peeta Mellark: Yeah, I know.
- [looks at each other]
- Peeta Mellark: [sighs] Guess I'll see you tomorrow.
- Katniss Everdeen: See you tomorrow.
- Peeta Mellark: Together?
- Katniss Everdeen: Together.
- Peeta Mellark: Okay. One.
- Katniss Everdeen: Two.
- Peeta Mellark: Three.
- Katniss Everdeen: [to Haymitch] Peeta's strong.
- Peeta Mellark: What?
- Katniss Everdeen: He can throw a hundred pound sack of flour right over his head. I've seen it.
- Peeta Mellark: Okay, well, I'm not gonna kill anybody with a sack of flour.
- Katniss Everdeen: Peeta! Peeta! Oh!
- Peeta Mellark: Are you okay?
- Katniss Everdeen: I heard the cannon. I thought...
- [noticing the berries he's picked]
- Katniss Everdeen: That's nightlock, Peeta! You'll be dead in a minute!
- Peeta Mellark: I-I didn't know.
- Katniss Everdeen: You scared me to death. Damn you.
- [hugs him]
- Peeta Mellark: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- Peeta Mellark: Have you ever met him? Haymitch? You know, Katniss, he is our mentor. He did win this thing once.
- [Katniss ignores him]
- Peeta Mellark: Look, if you don't want to talk, I understand, but I just don't think there's anything wrong with getting a little bit of help.
- Katniss Everdeen: [discovers Peeta painting his arm] Hi.
- Peeta Mellark: Hey.
- Katniss Everdeen: How did you do that?
- Peeta Mellark: I, ah... I used to decorate the cakes down at the bakery.
- Katniss Everdeen: Oh.
- Peeta Mellark: I'll show you. See?
- [He holds his painted arm against the bark of a tree; the match is perfect]
- Katniss Everdeen: Wow.
- Peeta Mellark: Yeah.
- Peeta Mellark: [to Katniss] You know what my mother said? She said "District 12 might finally have a winner," but she wasn't talking about me. She was talking about you.
- Cato: [holding Peeta in a rear-arm choke] Go on! Shoot, then we both go down and you win. Go on. I'm dead anyway. I always was, right? I didn't know that till now. How's that? Is that what they want? Huh?
- Peeta Mellark: No...
- Cato: I can still do this. I can still do this. One more kill. It's the only thing I know how to do - bring pride to my district. Not that it matters.
- Katniss Everdeen: We'll just get you some medicine.
- Peeta Mellark: Katniss, I don't get many parachutes.
- Katniss Everdeen: We'll figure something out.
- Peeta Mellark: Like what?
- Katniss Everdeen: Something.
- [the Careers observe Peeta falling off a climbing net during group training]
- Katniss Everdeen: Throw that metal thing over there.
- Peeta Mellark: What? No. Haymitch said we're not supposed to show our skills...
- Katniss Everdeen: I don't care what Haymitch said. Those guys are looking at you like you're a meal. Throw it.
- Peeta Mellark: I think about that all the time. How I tossed you that bread.
- Katniss Everdeen: Peeta...
- Peeta Mellark: I should have gone to you. I should have just gone out in the rain and...
- Katniss Everdeen: Shh.
- Katniss Everdeen: Peeta, I got it! I got the medicine!
- Peeta Mellark: What happened to you?
- Katniss Everdeen: I'm fine.
- Peeta Mellark: No, you're not. What happened?
- Katniss Everdeen: The girl from 2, she threw a knife. I'm okay.
- Peeta Mellark: You shouldn't have gone! You said you weren't gonna go!
- Katniss Everdeen: You got worse.