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" 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. "

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Talking

" My secret is just surrounding myself with people who are a lot funnier than me. "

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Myself

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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'm a tough critic on myself. "

" To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a cat person. "

Dave Franco

Cat

Person

" 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. "

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Candle

Down

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dave Franco

Business

Weird

" No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't. "

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

" 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 small shifty kind of guy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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

" 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. "