James Franco Quotes

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

There's always going to be someone prettier, smarter, funnier, better than you - something - but you're you. And no one can take that away from you. Every single person in this world is unique and special and worth something. You can become anything you want to. We just live in a society where they love to kick people when they're down, and they love to put a label on everything.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.

It doesn't feel great to be compared to Genelia or anyone. I don't want to be compared, and I would like to think I am different.

The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else.

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain.

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.