I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect. James Franco More Quotes by James Franco More Quotes From James Franco 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 funcharacterart Life as a performance is just a way to look at life choices as character choices. Every morning you choose what to wear, you choose how to wear your hair, you choose your friends, you more or less choose your profession, and how hard you will work at it. Those are all things that an actor decides about his character when he is performing, and they are things that we decide in life. We create our "character." James Franco choicesmorningcharacter In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside of her, just like we are in life. These pressures and circumstances shape character. Who your parents are determines your genetic make up: your skin color, your sex, your height, weight. Where you are raised does affect your worldview either positively or negatively, your accent. Your economic class affects where you go to school, what you eat, where you sleep. James Franco characterbookschool 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 seriousactingreal I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator. That if I moved too far from my own experience, and my own established identity, I would be criticized for taking even more of those wedding pies from others. James Franco movedidentity There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school. James Franco suiciderunningschool Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work. James Franco over-you You're a white male living in America, brought up in one of the richest cities in the county, Palo Alto. You went to high school with Steve Jobs' daughter, and your journalism teacher is the mother-in-law of Sergey, co-founder of Google. James Franco daughterteacherschool Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person is born a prisoner in North Korea, this person is born Carlos the Dwarf. Some of these things are out of our control, but that doesn't mean that they can't be changed. A character, just like a person in real life, is a summation of her actions and feelings. Our actions and emotions are not performed against nothing, they do not arise from dust, we are in constant friction, and/or flow with our surroundings. James Franco realcharactermean I only work with people I trust and respect. James Franco people I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby. James Franco makeuphatebaby The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you. James Franco fameworld The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions. James Franco men Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially. James Franco men You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women. James Franco I'm a big cardigan sweater guy. James Franco cardiganssweatersguy But I don't want to die! I have so much to do! James Franco wanting-to-diedieswant We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened. James Franco differentheropeople I personally just love movies about the creative process. James Franco creativeprocessmovie-love I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight. James Franco pullingguyweight
