Dave Franco Quotes

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

I'm wired differently.

Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.

I had an extraordinary childhood.

My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

Embrace your weirdness!

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

I've been very lucky early on to be surrounded when I was a child by music from various countries. My parents would listen to a lot of music coming from other universes.

They're never gonna not put you in a box. It's something that they have to do, because nine times out of 10 people don't understand creativity.

All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.

Left to my own devices, I tend to go darker and weirder, and it's fun.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.

I was born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, a city on the east coast of China with a rich culture and over seven thousand years of history. Although it was a tumultuous age in China when I was a child, I was lucky enough to have completed a good education from primary to middle school.

I had a nice childhood, even though I grew up in hotels.