Actors Anonymous Quotes

“Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“You also need love. Your characters need to love something, otherwise they will be unlovable.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“You want to be interesting? Be interested.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“It had happened. I had brought the dream out into reality and it had dissolved. It was just a dream and had found no purchase in the real world where it was dependent on other people for its realization. I wished that I could have sucked my words back inside where they had lived a colorful life of promise, had been nurtured by hope, and had never been tested”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous

“Make your characters interested in something. Striving for something. In need of something. Good at something. This will make them likeable and interesting.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“In the movie of your entire life, do you want drama and conflict or a straight shot to the top, unencumbered?”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“Read Frank’s poem, “Advice to the Players.” It talks about all of this, about the human need to create.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“It had happened. I had brought the dream out into reality and it had dissolved. It was just a dream and had found no purchase in the real world where it was dependent on other people for its realization.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“I also found that sexual energy was a great engine for performance:”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“Kurt Cobain is my god. He is the most beautiful man that ever lived.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“Sometimes my mother is annoying and I get bratty in return, but I still love her so much. I just don’t want to become her.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“I AM THE ACTOR. I am alive in 2013 and I was alive in 1913. I am an actor, so I can play everything. Everyone is in me, and I am a part of everyone.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“She was working the desk in the student exhibition hall, reading Kafka. She had a cool demeanor, but it was more like she couldn’t get her words out so easily, so she covered everything with an icy smile.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel