#or

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way. ↗

— James Franco

#back #bit #camera #doing #even

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

#acting #actually #been #came #collaborative

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish. ↗

— James Franco

#different #i #irish #italian #mcdonald

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something. ↗

— James Franco

#film #i #like #morning #shoot

I can't work without my family being with me. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#family #i #me #without #work

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. ↗

— James Franco

#art #because #bought #commercial #commercial work

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap. ↗

— James Franco

#film #film actor #general #going #graduate

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you. ↗

— James Franco

#because #care #directing #everything #feel

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces. ↗

— James Franco

#bad #braces #child #get #got

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems. ↗

— James Franco

#ago #based #film #film school #films