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I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.
I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.
It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.
There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.
For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.
Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.
Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.
"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.
I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.
Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.
Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.
I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.
The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.
He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.
You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.
The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.
I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.
Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.
I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.
I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, "I forgot something."
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.
If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.
When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.
The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.
I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.
When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.
I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.
This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.
You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.
I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.
I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.
I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have.
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.
I loved the world of Oz. I guess as a young man, I was just drawn to fantasy worlds. I liked being transported to alternative realms where a lot of my early imagination was sparked.