I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

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.

إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم

Curiosity is god’s greatest gift to man, but my gift is a little amplified.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

None of us can choose where we shall love.