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" As a young actor, you hear 'no' every single day for years on end. "
Day
Actor
Young
" As much as I love and respect my brother, I'm doing my best to distance myself from him and kind of show people that, even though we do look similar and have similar mannerisms, we are completely different. "
Respect
Best
Love
" At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different. "
World
Risks
Face
" Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director. "
Medium
Films
Director
" For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother. "
You
Alone
Brother
" I burned down my dorm room freshman year. I was that kid. When you live in small quarters with two guys, the smell in the room starts to take over a little bit. So we decided we wanted our room to smell like fresh baked cookies. So we order a cookie-dough-scented candle off eBay, and then we accidentally burn our room down with that candle. "
Cookies
Candle
Down
" I can't remember the last time I was out at a bar or club. I'll still drink, but I just can't remember the last time I blacked out. Which I think means I'm growing up. "
Remember
Time
Drink
" I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows. "
Say
Like
Different
" I can't stress it enough that we genuinely love 'The Room.' Like I said, I've seen it more than any other movie that's ever been made, and it gets to a point where if a movie is that watchable, when can we just call it a good movie? "
More
Enough
Good
" I don't just wanna be James Franco's little brother. "
Brother
Little Brother
Little
" I don't know if I was born weird. I think it's just that I was exposed to very strange things from a very early age by my brothers. "
Age
Weird
Think
" I guess I've kind of recognized what my worth is and what my specific brand of humor is. And that's not necessarily being the guy who's super witty and saying a joke every second. I'm the guy who you throw in a bizarre scenario, and I'll play it as real as possible. "
Saying
Play
You
" I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing. "
Know
Career
Own
" I love working with family and friends because, as an actor, it makes my job easy. I feel comfortable with all of these people, and I feel more willing to take risks. "
People
Risks
Easy
" I'm a cat person. "
Cat
Person
" I'm a small shifty kind of guy. "
Guy
Kind
Small
" I'm a tough critic on myself. "
Critic
Tough
Myself
" I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person. "
Like
Always
Person
" I swear to God, that movie comes up more in my life than any other movie. Someone says 'Bowfinger' once every month or two to me. And how many years ago did that come out? "
Someone
My Life
Month
" I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role. "
Single
Rejection
Through
" I think - in general, I don't think I've been involved in a single movie that turned out the way I anticipated it to turn out. Just because, as an actor, there's only so much that I can bring to a project. "
Think
Project
Just Because
" I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room. "
She
Living
Her
" It's a weird thing about our business: You give everything you have, and there are moments where you go back and forth in your mind about if what you're doing is brilliant or a total disaster. "
Go
Business
Weird
" It's the most incredible feeling in the world when you finally land a job. "
You
Feeling
Finally
" I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in. "
Movies
Hope
Acting
" I've been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who I can learn from, and it makes me up my game. "
Myself
Enough
People
" I've personally been involved in movies where people on set were talking about awards for the movie, and I bought into the hype. And then the movie would come out, and not only was it not good, it was horrible. "
Movies
Good
Talking
" I was just so nervous every time I was onstage. It took me many, many years to get to the point where I realized, 'All right, if I'm going to keep doing this, I've gotta remember that it's supposed to be fun. I've gotta stop putting so much pressure on myself, because otherwise, it's not worth it.' And I still am too critical of myself. "
Time
Remember
Myself
" I went to USC where there's a huge Greek system. The school is in a pretty seedy area, so the only social life is at these fraternities. I never joined one myself, but I had a lot of friends who were in frats and I would go to those parties. I had a healthy dose of being around frat life while I was in school. "
Myself
School
Friends
" My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute. "
Trying
Brand
Humor
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