The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

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.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Justin Trudeau is going to elect Kevin O'Leary. All he has to do is keep doing what he is doing.

I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.

I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

You see in the photograph what you are.

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.

It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have to root for the home country.

Living together is an art.