James Franco Quotes

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

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• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Poor
  • Alphabet
  • Illogical

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Real
  • May
  • Small

• I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Camera
  • Treat

• Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. For me, it would be more than an honor to work with these talented musicians.

  

  Maluma
  • Work
  • Honor
  • Musicians

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
  • Desert

• Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Believe
  • Say

• I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Art
  • Way
  • Cliched

• I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Peace
  • Anger

• It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Hard
  • Top
  • Stay

• A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Animal

• O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,For I wish to be purged of an urge.It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my acquaintances into people who look the other way when I heave into view.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Wish

• Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.

  

  Larry Niven

• «This is not like the water that falls from the sky, without knowing exactly why.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Why
  • Water
  • Sky

• Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Forever

• How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • American
  • Today

• I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.

  

  John McCain
  • Nature

• Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Man

• 'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time

• I think a lot of people feel like they still have something to prove, because when you get in and you're chasing success, you always feel like you have something to prove. But at this point, I feel like an underdog, and I actually like being in that position.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • People
  • Success
  • Underdog

• I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

  

  James Franco