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"I was kind of scared of failing at acting."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."
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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
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"I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting."
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"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting."
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"Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this."
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"I become kind of obsessive about research."
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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 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."
Acting
"I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do."
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"I was kind of scared of failing at acting."
Acting
"Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie."
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"I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight."
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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 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."
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"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."
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"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."
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