You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.' — James Franco Copy Share Image
I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby. — James Franco Copy Share Image
I had a great coach, He pulled it out of me. It really makes me want to do a musical on Broadway. — James Franco Copy Share Image
The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire… — James Franco Copy Share Image
There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let… — James Franco Copy Share Image
School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Life as a performance is just a way to look at life choices as character choices. Every morning you choose what to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
My work is one thing and my identity is something else, but when acting is all I had, my identity was inevitably… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my… — James Franco Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Acting doesn't do very much for me. I put off school for it, but its not like it was a sacrifice or… — James Franco Copy Share Image
In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through… — James Franco Copy Share
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. — James Franco Copy Share
I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the… — James Franco Copy Share
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything. — James Franco Copy Share
I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby. — James Franco Copy Share
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money,… — James Franco Copy Share
I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I… — James Franco Copy Share
In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside… — James Franco Copy Share
Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person… — James Franco Copy Share
If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their… — James Franco Copy Share
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… — James Franco Copy Share
