I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.

All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

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

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

If illness' end be health regained then I Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Talking to liberals is much more fun now that we have Lexis-Nexis.

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance.

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.