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"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."
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"I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it."

"Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it."

"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."

"My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?"

"Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure."

"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
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"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."

"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."

"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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