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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
James Franco
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James Franco
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: April 19
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I was supposed to go out with this girl, but the plans mixed up because I was working late. So I went to her apartment with a flower. She was asleep, but I really wanted to see her. I figured I'd be like Romeo, and climbed up to her balcony and gave her a rose. She was very shocked. After that, it was over.
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I was kind of scared of failing at acting.
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I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, I forgot something.
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The Wolfpack is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.
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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.
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We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.
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School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.
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The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.
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The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.
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