Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

Cole Sprouse

Categorized in : Great Real Acting Empathy

I've become obsessed with trying to figure out who I am against situations that make me uncomfortable and not settled, ensuring that that fear of stagnation doesn't allow me to flip into that bubble of privilege.

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My closest friends are the ones who tell me that I'm being dumb or that I'm being wrong.

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Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.

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We have to be thankful for what we have. A lot of kids would love to be in our situation, and we realize that.

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I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character - not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he's obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.

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I took a break from acting for a little bit, came back, and didn't know how it was going to be, but I had so much fun. I really had, like, a reinvention, a renewal.

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I think sexuality, especially, is one of those fluid things where oftentimes we find who we are through certain things that happen in our lives.

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I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.

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I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

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My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

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Twins work really well in the industry because child labor laws dictate a baby, as an example, can only work for, like, an hour a day.

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We chose NYU because their arts program was great, and they're a prestigious institution, but really because you're in a city. You're involved in a completely different way of life. You didn't feel trapped within a campus or in a bubble.

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Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who've gone through personal torment.

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Everyone loves twins.

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My Twitter is a joke toilet, and I filter all these old, cringe-y parts of my brother and my childhood through that in an attempt to flush it down the drain forever.

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Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.

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I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

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It's pretty inappropriate of fans to think they can expect any kind of narrative from showrunners or writers or actors. I just don't think that's the way you should engage with material that you're watching as a passive audience member.

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My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.

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I anticipated we would go to college, and then we would fade out - that was kind of what we wanted at the time - but social media hung onto my brother and I, and thankfully, fans hung onto my brother and I, and I think it's one of the reasons that this reemergence can come back with a little more strength, and I'm very thankful for that.

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