Haley Joel Osment Quotes
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
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I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.