You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

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.

Inspiration in the wee hours of the morning is the golden ticket

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

She was walking into doors againA regular habit so it seems"From the Domestic

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

I wanted to model when I was younger.

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.