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" 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. "

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Dave Franco

Movies

Hope

Acting

" 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? "

Dave Franco

Enough

Good

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I'm a cat person. "

Dave Franco

Cat

Person

" 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. "

" You're in high school, and you're telling your friends that you're skipping lunch to go write poetry, and they were all questioning my sexuality. "

" I don't just wanna be James Franco's little brother. "

" I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing. "

" My first job ever, I was 14 years old - I was working at this mom-and-pop video store, and they basically paid me by allowing me to take home as many movies as I wanted, and that's how I started watching all the classics and really getting into it. "

" I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person. "

Dave Franco

Always

Person

" 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. "

" When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian. "

" 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. "

Dave Franco

Candle

Down

" It's the most incredible feeling in the world when you finally land a job. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a young actor, you hear 'no' every single day for years on end. "

" 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. "

" I'm a small shifty kind of guy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director. "

" You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved. "

" 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. "

Dave Franco

Say

Different

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you look at other good-bad movies like 'Sharknado' and 'Birdemic,' those movies know that they're B movies, know that they're silly and over the top, as opposed to 'The Room,' where Tommy Wiseau, the guy at the centre of it all, he attempted to make a very earnest drama. "

" 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. "