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"I was kind of scared of failing at acting."
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"I become kind of obsessive about research."
Research
"I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do."
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"Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun."
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"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."
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."
People
"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."
Art
"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."
Name
"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way."
Movies
"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"
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"I was kind of scared of failing at acting."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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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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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."
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"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."
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"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."
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"Acting is very start and stop."
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"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
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