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
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
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
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor. — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be… — 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
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
As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“In the movie of your entire life, do you want drama and conflict or a straight shot to the top, unencumbered?” — James Franco Copy Share Image
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
When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a… — 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
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
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 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 Image
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. — James Franco Copy Share Image
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 Image
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
