18 Incredibly Smart Celebrities With The Degrees To Prove It

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14. James Franco

Not only is James an extremely talented actor, he’s also a director, producer, teacher, author and a conceptual artist. Pretty impressive.

He is a student who was able to study in some of the most distinguished universities. His notable alma maters include UCLA, Columbia, New York University, and Yale University.

He finished his first degree with a GPA of 3.5. He was also a teacher at some of these schools for their Film and English departments.

This guy is smart, talented, ironic, sarcastic, intuitive and dangerously talented.

“My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That’s what my parents called me. I also got ‘Teddy Ruxpin’ a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out ‘James Franco’ my junior year of high school, I didn’t correct her.”

“When we were doing ‘Freaks and Geeks’, I didn’t quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn’t on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.”

It seems that James improvises even in his everyday life. He’s known for publically admitting that he enjoys marihuana and that his favorite getting-high buddy is Seth Rogen.