I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

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 you don't know a name, you can't be hurt when they go. I have no friends anymore, all are lost.

It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off.

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.