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" I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. "
Haley Joel Osment
Going
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money. "
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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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" 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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" The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing. "
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" I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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