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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. "

Haley Joel Osment

Basketball Player

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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