James Franco Quotes

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

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.

All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

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.

The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

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.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

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.

There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

If many people love me, then I must be important.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

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.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

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 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.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

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 don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

Sometimes rabbits, like, turn me on. I don't know why.

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 guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

I still don't like going to bed alone.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

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.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

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.

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 have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I actually don't smoke weed, but I've played a lot of stoners - especially with Seth Rogen.

School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.

I don't like sleeping in a bed.