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" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
You
Tell
Villain
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Face
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Day
" 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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" 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 never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. "
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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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Going
Parents
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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. "
Haley Joel Osment
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Horror
Difference
" I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011. "
Haley Joel Osment
New York
Study
Pretty
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Life
Doing
Good
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Place
You
Looking
" I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. "
Haley Joel Osment
Going
After
Foster
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Heights
Normal
People
" 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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People
Try
Rest
" A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds. "
Haley Joel Osment
You
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Image
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
You
Life
People
" Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money. "
Haley Joel Osment
Just
Role
Money
" It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you. "
Haley Joel Osment
Act
You
Hard
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Sister
Mom
Time
" 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
Way
Character
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Outside
Go
Imagine
" I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely. "
Haley Joel Osment
Page
Never
Avoid
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Art
Think
Performance
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Grow Up
Grow
Kid
" You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there. "
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You
Always
Yourself
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Born
You
Tree
" I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script. "
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Doing
Try
Something
" 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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People
Challenge
" Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial. "
Haley Joel Osment
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