James Franco Quotes

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

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• There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Change
  • Myself

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Help
  • Never

• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Death
  • Child

• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Want
  • City

• The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • War
  • Community
  • Face

• I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Know
  • Courage
  • Acting

• One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Character
  • Think
  • Easy

• When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Enjoy

• The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Movie
  • Journey
  • First

• I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Love
  • Everybody
  • Anybody

• If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Trust
  • Values
  • Vote

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  

  Hannah More
  • Poverty
  • Youth
  • Luxury

• As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Long
  • Acting

• Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Father
  • Me
  • Mean

• To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day.

  

  Lou Boudreau
  • Thinking

• I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Hurt
  • Girls
  • Kissing

• What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Propose

• Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Desire
  • Dreams
  • Champions

• There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Society
  • Flatterers

• Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

  

  James Franco