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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 become kind of obsessive about research."
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"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."
Art
"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."
Irish
"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 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.'"
Hearing
"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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"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
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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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"To marry the Irish is to look for poverty."
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"We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely."
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"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."
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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 come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics."
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"Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure."
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"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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"My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?"
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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."
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"For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic."
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