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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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Life
Doing
Good
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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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" 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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" I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely. "
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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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" I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. "
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" 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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" I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011. "
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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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He
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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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" 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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You
" 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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Theatre
Saying
" 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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Art
Think
Performance
" 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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You
Life
People
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Afraid
Cool
Down
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Like
You
Sense
" 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. "
Haley Joel Osment
Always
You
Successful
" People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen. "
Haley Joel Osment
Worst
See
Scared
" 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
" I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me. "
Haley Joel Osment
Me
People
Know
" 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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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
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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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You
Work
" 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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Look
People
Challenge
" A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds. "
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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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" 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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Face
Me
" 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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Drama
Laugh
Audience
" 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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Grow
Kid
" My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. "
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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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