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.

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.

I studied archaeology.

I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

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.

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.'

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

Something Dylan and I really don't care much for is leaning into the identical twin thing. It doesn't make sense.

I love to bake. Cakes are my specialty - they have to be moist and sugary.

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.

We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn't even walk around anymore... I was really socially anxious and strange.

There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you're constantly told you're part of an out group in your own society.

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.

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.

If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you're never going to improve.

I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.

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.

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.

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.

I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.

I focus on different parts of the body on different days. It's usually high-intensity circuits and a lot of body weight stuff.

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.

There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.

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.

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

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.