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.

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

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 couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn't work.

I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our public media.

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.

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