Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely. "

Haley Joel Osment

Related Quotes:

" When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial. "

Haley Joel Osment

" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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! "

Haley Joel Osment

" People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen. "

Haley Joel Osment

" I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me. "

Haley Joel Osment

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

Haley Joel Osment

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

Haley Joel Osment

" I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater. "

Haley Joel Osment

" 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

" It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you. "

Haley Joel Osment

" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment

" I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either. "

Haley Joel Osment

" It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes. "

Haley Joel Osment

" I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. "

Haley Joel Osment

" What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life. "

Haley Joel Osment

" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment

" 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

" 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

" My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. "

Haley Joel Osment

" 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

" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment

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

Haley Joel Osment

" 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

" I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script. "

Haley Joel Osment

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

Haley Joel Osment

" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment

" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment