If I’m working on a film, I’ll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
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 like, who also are the funniest people around.
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.
I worked the drive-through at McDonald’s and tried out different accents – Italian, Russian, Irish.
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.
It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It’s like surrendering to the night or something.
Sometimes I think to myself, what should James Franco say next? And then it comes to me. Boobs.
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.
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.
I don’t like sleeping in a bed.
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.
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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For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.
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.
I actually don’t smoke weed, but I’ve played a lot of stoners – especially with Seth Rogen.
I don’t go on vacation. I don’t really need vacation.
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.
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That’s what my parents called me. I also got ‘Teddy Ruxpin’ a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out ‘James Franco’ my junior year of high school, I didn’t correct her.
Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.