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" I'm not that much of a singer. "
Ross Butler
Singer
Much
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" My acting technique is a combination of a lot of different ones. A lot of it is Meisner. "
Ross Butler
Lot
Technique
Different
" Growing up, my favorite movies were 'Forrest Gump,' 'Shawshank Redemption,' 'Gladiator' - none of them really had Asian leading men. "
Ross Butler
Growing Up
Growing
Up
" 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. "
Ross Butler
Focus
Friend
Friends
" 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. "
Ross Butler
School
People
High School
" I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.' "
Ross Butler
Team
Anymore
Asian
" I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist. "
Ross Butler
Bring
Zeitgeist
Trying
" Honestly, I love Ruth's Chris. "
Ross Butler
Love
Ruth
I Love
" If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit. "
Ross Butler
Me
Offers
Plate
" 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. "
Ross Butler
Just
Time
Weird
" All of our actions have consequences whether we know it or not. We never know what people are going through until something tragic happens - if they don't talk about it. "
Ross Butler
People
Consequences
Never
" 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. "
Ross Butler
Vacation
End
Effort
" 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.' "
Ross Butler
Guilt
I Can
American
" I like to say I was a creature in high school. A weird creature who had my hands in a lot of different things. "
Ross Butler
High School
Hands
Say
" 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. "
Ross Butler
America
Born
Country
" If everything could be like 'Forrest Gump,' I'd be happy. "
Ross Butler
Could
Like
Happy
" I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in. "
Ross Butler
Really
Fit
Bullied
" I'm actually a really big board game and video game nerd. "
Ross Butler
Game
Really
Nerd
" 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. "
Ross Butler
School
Experience
Great
" 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. "
Ross Butler
American
White
Opportunity
" 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
Go
Going
" Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar. "
Ross Butler
Game
Want
Enough
" I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever. "
Ross Butler
Want
Inspire
Become
" 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. "
Ross Butler
Kind
Men
Mission
" My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish. "
Ross Butler
Full
Name
Very
" Zendaya is really chill and cool. "
Ross Butler
Cool
Chill
Really
" 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 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. "
Ross Butler
Interesting
People
Creative
" 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. "
Ross Butler
Say
Hard
Real
" Joseph Gordon-Levitt's career is kind of how I want to create my career. He's very involved with his recording and production company and also worked on some really great projects. "
Ross Butler
Great
Kind
Career
" I'm not the Asian kid of 'Riverdale;' I'm Reggie, and I just happen to be Chinese. "
Ross Butler
Kid
Just
Happen