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21 " ...it can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really great, but maybe some people say the same thing about you, and you want to tell those people: 'No, you're stupid, it's no fun being me. "
― James Franco , Palo Alto
22 " I guess in some people's lives, no one tells you what to be, and so you be nothing. "
23 " You also need love. Your characters need to love something, otherwise they will be unlovable. "
― James Franco , Actors Anonymous
24 " You want to be interesting? Be interested. "
25 " They're just peanut butter and jealous! Haters gonna hate, and ain't-ers gonna ain't. "
― James Franco
26 " I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome. "
27 " In the movie of your entire life, do you want drama and conflict or a straight shot to the top, unencumbered? "
28 " Make your characters interested in something. Striving for something. In need of something. Good at something. This will make them likeable and interesting. "
29 " Read Frank’s poem, “Advice to the Players.” It talks about all of this, about the human need to create. "
30 " Funny how new facts pop up and make you doubt that there’s any goodness in life. Everyone pretends to be normal and be your friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don’t know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other’s tapes and find out what each of us was really like. But then you’d have to watch girls go poo and boys trying to go down on themselves. "
31 " In Paranoid Park there is this Punk girl that keeps looking straight into The camera when she speaks, It’s like she’s speaking to us. "
― James Franco , Directing Herbert White: Poems
32 " There was a moon and it was on the water. A miniature moon rocking on the little waves. I always see nice images like that but I don't know what to do with them. I guess you share them with someone. Or you write them down in a poem. I had so many of those little images, but I never shared them or wrote any of them down. "
33 " There is a fake version of meAnd he's the one that writesThese poems.He has an attitude and swaggerThat I don't have.But on this page, this fake meIs the me that speaks.And this fake me is louderThan the real me, and heIs the one that everyone knows.He's become the real meBecause everyone treats meLike I'm the fake me. "
34 " She was working the desk in the student exhibition hall, reading Kafka. She had a cool demeanor, but it was more like she couldn’t get her words out so easily, so she covered everything with an icy smile. "
35 " You were an artist.For a moment.Was it too much?Was it the drugs that helped you?The drugs that killed you?Was it the acting?Was it all of us,Outside the screen,Just watching?— Ledger "
36 " The masks are just as important as the reality. The masks are our reality. Everyone’s reality. Life is a performance. When an actor gives a good performance, often people say, “What good choices.” So if life is your grand performance, have you made good choices? "
― James Franco , Bungalow 89
37 " Gay James: Well, why don’t you stop playing games and give us a little of your private self?Straight James: Kind of impossible, don’t you think? As soon as I share it, it becomes public. "