- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Healers
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I become kind of obsessive about research.
- Failing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of scared of failing at acting.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.
- McDonald
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like sleeping in a bed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.
- Bed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still don't like going to bed alone.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020