Ross Butler Quotes

Ross Butler

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 17, 1990

I've played a jock a lot, but pretty nuanced jocks.

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If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit.

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I don't really use emojis. Is that weird? In the time it takes for me to even find the flexed-arm emoji, I could just type that I'm at the gym.

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I'm allergic to cats, so I'm psychologically wired to associating kittens with itchy eyes and popping Claritin.

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If everything could be like 'Forrest Gump,' I'd be happy.

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I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

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With social games, I bring my friends, and maybe they'll bring a friend or two, and when you're playing a game, you don't need to focus on trying to come up with things to talk about.

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I don't want to be super aggressive, but I think it's an issue that the population of America isn't reflected accurately in a lot of movies. I'm just disappointed that there isn't an Asian leading man or an Asian leading woman. There's an obvious gap that should be filled.

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I like to say I was a creature in high school. A weird creature who had my hands in a lot of different things.

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Honestly, I love Ruth's Chris.

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If I didn't mind having a quarter of my car payment going towards a gym membership, I'd definitely go to Equinox.

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My mom just wanted me to do anything that was academic, whether it was become a doctor or be a lawyer. Engineering suited her... then I dropped out. It was not what I wanted to do at all; it just felt so unnatural, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I just knew it wasn't for me.

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My acting technique is a combination of a lot of different ones. A lot of it is Meisner.

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Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar.

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Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up with. And Hugh Jackman. I love everything that these guys are doing. It's kind of been my mission to be an Asian-American version of that.

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I know I play a lot of jocks, but I'm actually a really big board game and video game nerd. It's one of the most interesting fields of entertainment because you get to create your own role and create your own rules. Some people get so creative with it, and I'm also super competitive. I'm a really big nerd.

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Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a great time, and some people don't have a great time. My high school experience was not the greatest. I wasn't necessarily bullied, but I was one of those guys that just goes along, and I didn't really feel connected to many of the social cliques.

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When I was younger, I had no idea that I would be an actor. I had an interest in it, but I never actually did it. I didn't really expect it to be a career path.

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When I started acting, one of the first things I learned was - especially in Hollywood - was branding. I'm a tall guy. I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably going to be my foot in the door,' because that's my impression on everybody. I'm an athletic guy, and I think, because I grew up disliking jocks so much, that became, like, the character for me.

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Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.

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