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Create your world around your...

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

James Franco 161 quotes

For April Fools Day, someone ...

For April Fools Day, someone played a really cruel joke on me. They stole ALL my mirrors and I had to go hours without seeing myself. I mean, I couldn’t even do my daily affirmations. What kind of world is this? I tell you, it’s artists like myself that really suffer.

James Franco 161 quotes

Sometimes it is painful to be...

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

James Franco 161 quotes

I don't have many hobbies. If...

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.

James Franco 161 quotes

In any creative endeavor, you...

In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into the creative arts. So, if you want to pursue a career in something like acting or writing, the motor and the drive have to come from you. And that does take courage because, A, a lot of people want to do it, and B, it's hard. So, you have to have the guts to put yourself out there and go for it in spite of the world saying, "You know, it would be so much easier, if you didn't pursue this." So, it does take guts.

James Franco 161 quotes

My style is casual-chic? Casu...

My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?

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Of course there are some acto...

Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.

James Franco 161 quotes

I don't cast somebody that I ...

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

James Franco 161 quotes

I don't go on vacation. I don...

I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.

James Franco 161 quotes

If the work is good, what doe...

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.

James Franco 161 quotes

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fa...

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

James Franco 161 quotes

The new critique you're gonna...

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

James Franco 161 quotes

The first piece of art that I...

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

James Franco 161 quotes

The general view is that acto...

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.

James Franco 161 quotes

I acted professionally for ab...

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

James Franco 161 quotes

Directing, editing, and every...

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

James Franco 161 quotes

You work really hard to make ...

You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.

James Franco 161 quotes

There's a tacit belief that a...

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 of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

James Franco 161 quotes

There's a tendency, when you'...

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

James Franco 161 quotes

When I research a role it doe...

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

James Franco 161 quotes

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