James Franco 'trapped' by acting

Actor James Franco felt "trapped" by acting.

Franco returned to education in 2006 when he enrolled in UCLA in California as an English major and has subsequently studied and taught a number of other courses, and admits one of the reasons he went back to school was to branch out creatively, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"One of the reasons that I went back to school -- and then many schools -- was that when I only had acting, I felt trapped," Franco told New York magazine.

"I think that's how a lot of people feel in a lot of professions. When I went to Yale for my Ph.D. in literature, I had fellow students -- great students, writing incredible papers -- come up to me and say, "I'm so jealous of you. I'm writing this paper. If I get it published, 50 people will read it," he added.