I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

And marbled clouds go scudding byThe many-steepled London sky.

Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle.

My mum used to say to me, 'you can't have fun all the time,' and I used to say, 'why not?'. Why... can't I have fun all the time?

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

There are people creating Photoshopped pictures of me getting beat as if I were a slave back in the day.

I Fall upon the thorns of life.