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The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

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James Franco
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: April 19
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James Edward Franco
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There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.
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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.
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When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.
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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.
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I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.
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I personally just love movies about the creative process.
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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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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
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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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I loved the book [The Adderall Diaries] I optioned it, I think some years ago. But there's a lot of different threads in the book. It starts off as one thing, where he's trying to cover this murder trial, and then his own life starts to impinge on that, so it becomes something else. I found that fascinating.
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I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, Oh, I have my work time, and we go on a date, and it better be darn fun and exciting! I think it should all coalesce a bit more.
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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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When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.
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Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.
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Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.
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I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love doing comedies now. I don't like a lot of those movies now, but I thought those were movies that I could do real, serious performances in.
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All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me.
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If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
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Fight scenes are really more like dances than they are fights, because you're depending on your partner to do the right move at the right time. Yes, a tough person or somebody who knows what they're doing will look better in a fight scene, but it also has a lot to do with the other person.
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