“I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.”
― Cole Sprouse
“We have to be thankful for what we have. A lot of kids would love to be in our situation, and we realize that.”
― Cole Sprouse
“My closest friends are the ones who tell me that I’m being dumb or that I’m being wrong.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.”
― Cole Sprouse
“If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you’re never going to improve.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I’m a believer that we should support various forms of representation because they clearly resonate with unheard groups of people, and for such a huge project like ‘Riverdale,’ this kind of representation is fundamentally important.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I think there’s still a lot of room in ‘Riverdale’ for that. Asexuality is not one of those things, in my research, that is so understood at face value, and I think maybe the development of that narrative could also be something very interesting and very unique and still resonate with people and not step on anyone’s toes.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.”
― Cole Sprouse
“There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you’re constantly told you’re part of an out group in your own society.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Everyone loves twins.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who’ve gone through personal torment.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“If you’re a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I had a really, really hard time working with Aniston because I was so in love with her. I was infatuated. I was speechless – I’d get all bubbly and forget my lines and completely blank. It was so difficult.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I get on Facebook, and I love it. Then one day, I get a message that says, ‘Your account has been deleted.’ I click on the link to see why it was deleted, and it says, ‘Your account has been suspended because members are not allowed to impersonate celebrities.’”
― Cole Sprouse
“It’s easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I’ve been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“We went all dark and grimy for ‘Riverdale.’”
― Cole Sprouse
“I take a lot of pride in my photography.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Jughead, to me, was reflective of a teen experience that made a lot of sense to me.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Because ‘Friends’ is on Netflix, there’s a renewed interest from that… People can call me ‘Ben’ on the street, and I will turn around.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“There’s an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you’re isolated from your society.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I love to bake. Cakes are my specialty – they have to be moist and sugary.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Disney is very much a child’s theater – it’s a very specific kind of acting. It’s loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I think the truth about male friendship is often left out of the media, and it’s that it has a million different shades, because masculinity has a million different forms.”
― Cole Sprouse
“At first, when I received the script for the ‘Archie’ show, I was immediately turned off.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you’re still very much a cipher for other people’s art.”
― Cole Sprouse
“No man is an island, especially not Jughead.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don’t want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.”
― Cole Sprouse
“There were points I wanted to stop acting. We got so busy and didn’t get to see our friends a lot, and I was like, ‘Wow, I’m kind of over this.’ But then we started really having fun on ‘The Suite Life.’”
― Cole Sprouse
“I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, you’re from the movie ‘Big Daddy,” and I had bird poop all over me.”
― Cole Sprouse
“A lot of Disney Channel actors and actresses, when they stop working for Disney Channel, they have a real aversion for not wanting to be remembered by Disney Channel.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I studied archaeology.”
― Cole Sprouse
“It’s no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I focus on different parts of the body on different days. It’s usually high-intensity circuits and a lot of body weight stuff.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I’d never made the choice to go into acting.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I don’t come from a lot, so Disney gave me the opportunity to go to college, which is great. My brother and I are some of the first in our family to ever do that.”
― Cole Sprouse
“We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn’t even walk around anymore… I was really socially anxious and strange.”
― Cole Sprouse
“My secret pleasure is painting these little mini figures that you send into battle – they’re called Warhammer figures. It’s the nerdiest thing in the world, but it’s a lot of fun. It’s relaxing; that’s the main reason I do it.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Something Dylan and I really don’t care much for is leaning into the identical twin thing. It doesn’t make sense.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our public media.”
― Cole Sprouse
“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.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.”
― Cole Sprouse
“The world of fashion and fine arts in New York really took me by surprise, and photography has helped me through a period of personal turmoil. I am glad when people like my portfolio, but its aim is – or was – to keep me at peace.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Jughead is one of those characters that takes the opinions of his father really seriously and probably seeks a bit of validation from him.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I don’t regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn’t have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.”
― Cole Sprouse
“To even be a working entertainer in Hollywood is such a rare privilege.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I think Jughead’s a selfish character. I think he really is.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Y’know, I think, inherently, when you hear something like a teenage narrative come into play, even the idea that it’s being called ‘teenage’ is a notion that it’s being reduced to a problem that’s not quite adult. That’s a problematic thing to say about a narrative that could actually be dangerous, could be hurtful, could be upsetting.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. – usually the ’40s or ’50s – 90 percent of the time, they’re a straight white man.”
― Cole Sprouse
“There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term ‘feminist’ has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment are the things I despise, to be quite honest.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you’re raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there’s no one right answer.”
― Cole Sprouse
“When you’re a child, and you’re growing up, and you’re mimicking a certain character, or you’re trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you’re playing into your real life and kind of become that thing.”
― Cole Sprouse
“It’s one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but it can be an intense identity crisis.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I’m a firm believer that if you’re nervous before you go into a scene, it means the scene is going to be good, and it means you’re invested in making something special.”
― Cole Sprouse
“When I would read the ‘Archie’ comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I needed to see if I could have fun in a project again, and ‘Riverdale’ was a project that ended up looking like a tonne of fun.”
― Cole Sprouse
“My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.”
― Cole Sprouse
“If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.”
― Cole Sprouse
“Going to college made me realize you have to have real spaces of privacy, and you have to establish those early.”
― Cole Sprouse
“The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I couldn’t continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn’t work.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I think as long as acting feels fulfilling and continues to feel fulfilling, it’s worth it to me.”
― Cole Sprouse
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