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James Franco

(1978) Actor United States

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James Franco is an actor from the United States, best known for Palo Alto.

Quick Facts About James Franco

Born: April 19, 1978
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Palo Alto

About James Franco

Franco also starred in Eat Pray Love, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Spring Breakers and Oz the Great and Powerful. He appeared with Rogen in Pineapple Express, This Is the End, The Interview, Sausage Party and The Disaster Artist, for which he earned a Golden Globe for Best Actor. His role in 127 Hours earned him a Best Actor nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards.

Awards & Honors

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Golden Shell Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Actor star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by James Franco · Page 3

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

Budgets

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You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.

Female

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Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

Acting

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I had my agent tell Bill Condon that Id be happy to do anything in Breaking Dawn.

Breaking dawn

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"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.

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You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.

Actor

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They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

Best revenge

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I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

Care

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I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and…

Acting

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“You were an artist. For a moment. Was it too much? Was it the drugs that helped you? The drugs that killed…

Art

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I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were…

Actors

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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…

Book

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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I…

Acting

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I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if…

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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to…

Actors

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I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she…

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“It had happened. I had brought the dream out into reality and it had dissolved. It was just a dream and had…

Colorful life

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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if…

Actors

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The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was…

Art

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Boys and girls were both created with given attributes, and given the freedom to act and react. But Adam was allowed to…

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When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things…

Actors

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I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I…

Art

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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as…

Actor

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My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy…

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

Actor

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There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

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For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.

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There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.

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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Film

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If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!

Drinking

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Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

Culture

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I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

Actor

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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Actors

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Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

Attachment

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When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

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I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

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The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

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I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm…

Film

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I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a…

Desire

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Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.

Hope

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