That's true, and perhaps that's why he doesn't even look that sheepish. Heaving rehearsed statements here isn't exactly a bad thing; if anything it's an expected part of working Staff.

"I wouldn't say I rehearsed it, but I've said it so many times now to so many different people I may as well have. I've found it works in my favor to have most things I say about my job planned out at least loosely ahead of time. You never know who's listening, after all, or how they might reword you in the next day's tabloids. Once they edited an interview to make it sound as though I was threatening to eat my fellow tributes, back before I won. I'd like to avoid another disaster like that."

For goodness sake, some Capitolites are still convinced trolls eat humans.