I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

...it can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really great, but maybe some people say the same thing about you, and you want to tell those people: 'No, you're stupid, it's no fun being me.

I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if it doesn't kind of come together in the right way, at least I was doing it because I believed in the person and the movie.

I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.