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

Haley Joel Osment

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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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there. "

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" 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. "

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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 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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" With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about. "

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" With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference. "

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

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" There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think. "

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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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" My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel. "

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