Top 100 James Franco Quotes
#1. My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.
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#2. The man is angry, the man
Is destructive, the man wants more.
The woman is more, the woman is all.
James Franco
#3. I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh, I have my work time, and we go on a date, and it better be darn fun and exciting!" I think it should all coalesce a bit more.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Make your characters interested in something. Striving for something. In need of something. Good at something. This will make them likeable and interesting.
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#6. I feel there are so many things in this world that have been and are being created that I could spend the rest of my life thinking about, and I couldn't cover all the things I'm interested in. That to me is what makes life sweet-learning and exploring.
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#7. Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.
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#8. For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.
Dave Franco
#9. There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I'll just tell them to relax.
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#10. I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.
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#11. Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.
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#12. School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.
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#13. I guess in some people's lives, no one tells you what to be, and so you be nothing.
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#14. When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
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#15. John Boehner is a member of a country club in Ohio. It turns out that the bartender was plotting to poison Boehner. Now wait a minute. Isn't that the movie with Seth Rogen and James Franco?
David Letterman
#16. If many people love me, then I must be important.
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#17. I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.
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#18. I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
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#19. I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.
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#20. Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art in itself, and when it's a great book I feel as a director or a writer that I have a responsibility to rise to the level of the original. It makes me try to reach higher.
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#21. Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
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#22. Funny how new facts pop up and make you doubt that there's any goodness in life. Everyone pretends to be normal and be your friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about ...
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#23. When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.
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#24. Gay James: Well, why don't you stop playing games and give us a little of your private self?
Straight James: Kind of impossible, don't you think? As soon as I share it, it becomes public.
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#25. It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.
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#26. Read Frank's poem, "Advice to the Players." It talks about all of this, about the human need to create.
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#27. I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.
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#28. He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.
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#29. Where are the Robert Redfords and Paul Newmans of my age group? I love James Franco, but where's the next James Franco? Where are the hunks who can act?
Jennifer Lawrence
#30. I tried to think of a worse experience I had had in my life, and all I could come up with was a James Franco art exhibit.
Chelsea Handler
#31. If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!
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#32. Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn't exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That's what my reflection told me.
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#33. I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.
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#34. Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.
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#35. I become kind of obsessive about research.
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#36. I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.
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#37. The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.
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#38. Sometimes I think to myself, what should James Franco say next? And then it comes to me. Boobs.
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#39. You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.
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#40. Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie.
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#41. I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
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#42. Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.
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#43. A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
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#44. I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
Jack Kilmer
#45. I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.
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#46. We fell in love last night. He's the coolest guy.
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#47. A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.
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#48. You also need love. Your characters need to love something, otherwise they will be unlovable.
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#49. It can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really great, but maybe some people say the same thing about you, and you want to tell those people: 'No, you're stupid, it's no fun being me.
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#50. I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
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#51. If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
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#54. I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.
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#55. I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.
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#56. I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.
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#57. I don't just wanna be James Franco's little brother.
Dave Franco
#58. I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.
James Franco
#59. My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.
Max Von Essen
#60. In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.
Emma Watson
#61. I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
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#62. Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.
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#63. When I was a young actor, I just didn't understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it's called the film business for a reason, there's money involved. But on the flip side, nowadays I do not let the business side of it rule either. It's a balance.
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#64. What's your name?" was my first question. I couldn't keep calling him Squirty though my pants were proof of the moniker's accurateness.
"James Franco."
"Like the actor?" I couldn't help but ask.
His expression eased into a smile. "Yes, but poorer and uglier.
Jeaniene Frost
#65. If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
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#66. My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.
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#67. The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
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#68. There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.
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#69. I used to care about how I looked. Now I don't care as much. Maybe it's because I'm so handsome.
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#70. I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.
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#71. If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
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#72. Like every heterosexual woman and gay man in the country, I think James Franco is a very mysterious and sexy weirdo and I'd like to be invited to do a love scene with him in one of his art house movies.
Mindy Kaling
#73. James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.
Tyrese Gibson
#74. Anne Hathaway, you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that, since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars.
Tina Fey
#75. The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
Bill Hader
#76. I don't know, and certainly I've been guilty of making a judgment about a celebrity, but there's a part of me that's like, 'Why don't you take the time you're spending ripping James Franco and go do something you like?'
Timothy Simons
#77. I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
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#78. When I was younger, I didn't know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.
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#79. For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.
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#80. If this is the only life, then why I'm not just doing everything I want to do.
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#81. I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.
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#82. When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.
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#83. There's so much pressure put on relationships to deliver the satisfaction of life. And to me, that is just not the answer. I feel like it should be something in addition to what you love or be a part of that.
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#84. When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.
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#85. 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.
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#87. You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.
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#88. I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.
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#89. The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
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#90. I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.
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#91. I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.
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#92. President Obama's trying to work out a nuclear deal with Iran, and the Republicans are steamed. They got together and sent Iran a letter about the nuclear deal. They said if this doesn't work, by God, they're going to send Seth Rogen and James Franco.
David Letterman
#93. It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
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#94. In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.
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#95. Barry had done it with her, the girl I loved, and it had meant nothing to him; Tanya would die and no one would care; and there were billions of bodies alive on earth and they would all be buried and ground into dirt; and Picasso was a master at age sixteen and I was a perfect shit.
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#96. All I know is that when I needed McDonald's , McDonald's was there for me.
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#97. All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end.
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#98. As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.
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#99. Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.
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#100. I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.
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