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.

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.

If everything is energy, which it is - then everything is because of energy.

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see...

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be salted?

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.