The Hunger Games (2012) - Quotes

Taglines: The World Will Be Watching

Taglines: The Games Will Change Everyone

Taglines: May the Odds be Ever in your Favor

Haymitch Abernathy: They aren't very happy with you.

Katniss Everdeen: Why, because I didn't die?

Abernathy: Because you showed them up.

Everdeen: [sarcastic] Well. I'm sorry it didn't go the way they'd planned; you know, I'm not very happy with them either-

Abernathy: Katniss. This is serious. And not just for you. They don't take these things lightly.

President Snow: Seneca, why do you think we have a winner?

Seneca Crane: What do you mean?

President Snow: [Crane does not respond] I mean, why do we have a winner? I mean, if we just wanted to intimidate the districts, why not round up twenty-four of them at random and execute them all at once? Be a lot faster. Hope.

Seneca Crane: Hope?

President Snow: Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.

Seneca Crane: [confused] So...

President Snow: So, contain it.

Peeta Mellark: 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 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, I'm sure I would just like anyone 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. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.

Katniss Everdeen: Yeah... I just can't afford to think like that.

Peeta Mellark: Yeah, I know.

Clove: [''pinning Katniss to the ground''; ''Katniss struggles''; ''pulls knife out of her jacket''; ''Thresh arrives, grabs Clove and pins her against the Cornucopia''] Where's lover boy? Oh, I see. You were gonna help him right? Well that's sweet. It's too bad that you couldn't help your little friend. That little girl, what was her name again? Rue? Yeah, well we killed her. And now we're going to kill you.

Thresh: You kill her?

Clove: No!

Thresh: I heard you!

Clove: Cato! CATO!

Thresh: [''Thresh slams Clove's head against the Cornucopia multiple times, killing her. Thresh turns to Katniss, but stops.''] You said her name! You said her name! Just this time, 12. For Rue.

Caesar Flickerman: So Peeta, tell me. Is there a special girl back home?

Peeta Mellark: No. No, not really.

Flickerman: No? I don't believe it for a second, look at that face! Handsome man like you! Peeta. Tell me.

Peeta: Well, there, uh... There is this one girl that I've had a crush on forever. But I don’t think she actually recognised me until the Reaping.

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: Thanks, but I, uh- I don't think winning's gonna help me at all.

Flickerman: And why not?

Peeta: Because she came here with me.

Flickerman: [dismayed] Well, that's bad luck.

Peeta: Yeah, it is.

Flickerman: And I wish you all the best of luck.

Peeta: Thank you.

Flickerman: Peeta Mellark! District 12!

Caesar Flickerman: [''after seeing Katniss’s flaming dress''] That was really something. Katniss, that was something. That was something. Thank you for that. I have one more question for you. It's about your sister. We were all very moved, I think, when you volunteered at the Reaping. Did she come and say goodbye to you?

Katniss Everdeen: Yes. She did.

Flickerman: And what did you say to her, in the end?

Katniss Everdeen: I told her I would try to win. That I would try to win, for her.

Flickerman: Of course you did. And try you will. Ladies and gentlemen, from District 12, Katniss Everdeen, The Girl On Fire!

Cato: [Holding Peeta hostage; Readies to break Peeta's neck] 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 until now. How's that, is that what they want? Huh? I can still do this!... I can still do this. One more kill. It's the only thing I know how to do. Bringing pride to my district! Not that it matters.

President Snow: Welcome, welcome! Tributes, we welcome you! We salute your courage and your sacrifice. And we wish you Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favour.

President Snow: [voiceover] War, terrible war. Widows, orphans, a motherless child. This was the uprising that rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebelled against the country that fed them, loved them, protected them. Brother turned on brother until nothing remained. And then came the peace, hard fought, sorely won. A people rose up from the ashes and a new era was born. But freedom has a cost. When the traitors were defeated, we swore as a nation we would never know this treason again. And so it was decreed, that each year, the various districts of Panem would offer up in tribute, one young man and woman, to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice. The lone victor, bathed in riches, would serve as a reminder of our generosity and our forgiveness. This is how we remember our past. This is how we safeguard our future.

Peeta Mellark: You know what my mother said? It looks like District 12 may finally have a winner. But she wasn't talking about me. She was talking about you.

Katniss Everdeen: [to Seneca Crane, bowing mockingly] Thank you for your consideration.

Katniss Everdeen: I volunteer! No! I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!