I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

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.

This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

My kids are my main hobby but, now they’ve gotten older, they’ve forced me to do things without them. I do a lot of things with my boat. My wife and I enjoy boating.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments