10 Celebrities Who Light Up the World With Their Intelligence

7. James Franco is a longtime student.

He’s an actor, movie director, and star of the Spiderman saga next to Tobey Maguire. His performance in the film The Disaster Artist even won him a Golden Globe for best actor in a musical comedy. But apart from Hollywood, he has transformed collecting titles and walking through prestigious universities into a hobby: He graduated from UCLA (where he also teaches Scriptwriting), enrolled in Cinematography at NYU (New York University), attended Columbia University and Brooklyn College for fiction prose, and also to went Yale to study comparative literature.