James Franco Net Worth

James Franco's Quotes

• I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
• [if he ever finds time to relax] Never. It's an impossibility. I don't even like to sleep. I feel as if there's too much to do.
• [what he looks for in a girl] Just someone I can relate to artistically and who can also be understanding and supportive of the demands of my lifestyle.
• When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
• I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, "I forgot something."

Interesting Facts about James Franco

1. Auditioned for the role of Peter Parker in Spider-Man (2002), but was given the part of Harry Osborn.
2. James appeared in two movies that premiered on the same day, Deuces Wild (2002) and Spider-Man (2002), both opening on May 3rd. The success of the two films was highly varied as Spider-Man film has to date amassed a box office gross some 67 times greater than that of Deuces.
3. He has two younger brothers, Tom Franco and Dave Franco.
4. His parents, Betsy Franco & Doug Franco, met at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
5. In his spare time he likes to paint.
6. Was named one of People Magazine's 50 Hottest Bachelors [2004]
7. Has his own production company - Rabbit Bandini Productions.
8. Went by the name of Ted in high school and was voted "Best Smile" at Palo Alto High School.
9. Was named one of Salon.com's "10 men who might just inspire the rebirth of Jewish male cool."
10. Although he always hated it, he started smoking for his lead role in James Dean (2001).
11. James's father was of half Portuguese and half Swedish descent, with his Portuguese roots being in the Madeira islands. James's mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Russia, Germany, Poland, and Lithuania).
12. Worked with stunt coordinator Nick Powell in two movies both premiering in 2006: Tristan + Isolde (2006) and Annapolis (2006).
13. Close friends with Tobey Maguire. He also used to "babysit" Tobey's daughter on the set of Spider-Man 3 (2007).
14. His grandmother, Mitzie Verne, is an artist.
15. Is friends with Busy Philipps, who he met on the set of Freaks and Geeks (1999).
16. Franco told interviewer Terry Gross that when he was in junior high school, he was arrested for shoplifting cologne from a department store and reselling it with his friends at the school. He noted to Gross the irony that, in 2008, he shot an advertising campaign in which he became the face of Gucci cologne.
17. While a guest on her NPR program "Fresh Air", Franco told interviewer Terry Gross that when he went back to UCLA to finish his undergraduate degree in creative writing, he was worried that his classmates and professors might think of him as "sliding by" because of his acting career, so he took a lot of extra courses to make sure they knew he was serious. He told Gross that the cap on the number of units that a student is allowed to take in a quarter was 19, but in his last quarter he took 62 units - which as far as he knows is a record for a single student.
18. In 2009, he reunited with his Deuces Wild (2002) co-star, Ronnie Marmo, on General Hospital (1963).
19. Franco's creative writing professors have included such major figures as Amy Hempel, Mona Simpson, Jonathan Lethem, Gary Shteyngart and Michael Cunningham.
20. Chosen by Premiere magazine as one of the "The 40 Most Handsome Hollywood Men"(#1)[2009].