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" I don't think I have any guilt or embarrassment about any of the TV shows I watch. Maybe the fact that the shows I can watch over and over again are cartoons like 'Bob's Burgers' and 'American Dad' and 'Rick & Morty.' "

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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. "

Ross Butler

Tall

Acting

Character

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish. "

" People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between. "

" 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. "

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

Ross Butler

Offers

Plate

" There are no Asian leading men in Hollywood. There's not an Asian Ryan Gosling or an Asian Brad Pitt. "

" I've played lacrosse players, football players, basketball players. I think that's just because of how I'm built. I look young, and I'm also a big person. "

" I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever. "

" As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles? "

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

" There's so much diversity on TV. It's actually reflecting American culture. "

" I'm not the Asian kid of 'Riverdale;' I'm Reggie, and I just happen to be Chinese. "

" I'm not that much of a singer. "

Ross Butler

Singer

Much

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

Ross Butler

Car

Going

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's so many Chinese or Asian Americans that were either born in another country like I was and raised in America or born in America and raised in America. They're normal Americans, and they just happen to have a different heritage. "

" I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.' "

" I will say that 'Riverdale,' yes, is a little more sensationalized. It's based on comics, and it is a little bit more dramatic and a little bit more made for TV, made for teens. For '13 Reasons,' we tried hard to make it as real as we could, as close to reality as possible. No corners were cut; everything was very raw and very real. "

" I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in. "

" In my head, I'd love to go on a vacation to somewhere exotic and far away and in the middle of nowhere. But then I think about the effort it would take to book a flight and a hotel, etc., and I just end up staycationing. "

" Growing up, my favorite movies were 'Forrest Gump,' 'Shawshank Redemption,' 'Gladiator' - none of them really had Asian leading men. "

Ross Butler

Growing Up

Growing

" Honestly, I love Ruth's Chris. "

" As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that. "

Ross Butler

Feel

Take

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