Top 40 Ross Butler Quotes

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.

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

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 like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

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

I have a lot of random hobbies.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Honestly, I love Ruth’s Chris.

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

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.

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.

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

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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

‘Mulan’ is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

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

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

I’m actually a really big board game and video game nerd.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 not that much of a singer.

Growing up, my favorite movies were ‘Forrest Gump,’ ‘Shawshank Redemption,’ ‘Gladiator’ – none of them really had Asian leading men.

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

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.

Zendaya is really chill and cool.

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.