Quotes from Ross Butler

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

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

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

Zendaya is really chill and cool.

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.'

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

I have a lot of random hobbies.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

Honestly, I love Ruth's Chris.

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.