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" 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
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" 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. "
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" There are no Asian leading men in Hollywood. There's not an Asian Ryan Gosling or an Asian Brad Pitt. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever. "
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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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" 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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" When I was growing up, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of TV. She said I couldn't watch 'Friends' or that era of sitcoms. "
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Me
" I'm not that much of a singer. "
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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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" 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? "
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" My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish. "
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" Zendaya is really chill and cool. "
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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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" 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 had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I'm older, I can look back on my teenage self and kind of see the things I did wrong and the things I did right, what affect they had on me, and what affect they had on other people. I can look at it in a much more conducive way to storytelling. "
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