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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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Always
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Character
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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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" When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else. "
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" You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there. "
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" I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. "
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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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" 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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" People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you. "
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" 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. "
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Rest
" I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either. "
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Age
Media
" 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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He
Risks
" 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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Always
Improv
" 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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Like
You
Sense
" Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money. "
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" I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me. "
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Know
" 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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" The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. 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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Life
Face
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" One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly. "
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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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" 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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" Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial. "
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" It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you. "
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" People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen. "
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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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" It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes. "
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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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Challenge
" 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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Think
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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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