Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

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.

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

What in your life needs to be consigned to the bin? Just make sure it's not your dreams!

I want you to kick Egg, Tea and Clipper out of the band!” - Daisy

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

Conditioning is my best weapon.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!