The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

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.

Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.