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I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

James Franco

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.

James Franco

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.

James Franco

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.

James Franco

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

James Franco

My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?

James Franco

Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

James Franco

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.

James Franco

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

James Franco

When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

James Franco

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.

James Franco

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

James Franco

I become kind of obsessive about research.

James Franco

I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

James Franco

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

James Franco

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

James Franco

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

James Franco

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

James Franco

I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

James Franco

Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.

James Franco

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.

James Franco

There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

James Franco

I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.

James Franco

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

James Franco

I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

James Franco

I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.

James Franco

I don't like sleeping in a bed.

James Franco

School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

James Franco

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

James Franco