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For me, acting in scenes with other people is like playing soccer with a bunch of legless five year olds. It's not really fair to them, but what else can I do, you know?

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor._x000D_ I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. _x000D_ Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

When I stand on stage, I get nervous, and because unexpected situations can occur, we need even more preparation. I must have confidence on top of that as well. The reason why I chose drama/theatre as my major is to act after learning all the theory first. You only live once, and I can only live as myself. I think I could learn a lot of things if I can live as others through acting.