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

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.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

If I have to choose between a person who has everything but loyalty and another who has nothing but loyalty, I go for the latter. Go loyal!

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.

I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

Action always beats inaction.