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All Quotes by author - Haley Joel Osment

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds. "

" 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. "

" Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial. "

" I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. "

" 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. "

" I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me. "

" I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy. "

" I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives. "

" I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script. "

" It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you. "

" It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes. "

" 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. "

" I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you. "

" I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely. "

" I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011. "

" I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there. "

" I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater. "

" Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money. "

" Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does. "

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" My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me. "

" My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest. "

" My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early. "

" 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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