James Franco Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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.

  James Franco

  Art, Fun, Character

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

  James Franco

  Acting, Scared, Kind

• 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.

  James Franco

  Real, Acting, Serious

  Source: www.elle.com

• Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

  James Franco

  Acting, Film, Reviews

• 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

  School, Effort, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  James Franco

  Taken, School, Acting

• 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.

  James Franco

  Real, Acting, Actors

• I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

  James Franco

  Years, People, Acting

• I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

  James Franco

  Tired, School, Atmosphere

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

• 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.

  James Franco

  Ucla, Years, Acting

  "James Franco Talks ‘The Broken Tower’ and Addresses His Critics". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

• In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into the creative arts. So, if you want to pursue a career in something like acting or writing, the motor and the drive have to come from you. And that does take courage because, A, a lot of people want to do it, and B, it's hard. So, you have to have the guts to put yourself out there and go for it in spite of the world saying, "You know, it would be so much easier, if you didn't pursue this." So, it does take guts.

  James Franco

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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