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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. "

Haley Joel Osment

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

" 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. "

" The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing. "

Haley Joel Osment

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Haley Joel Osment

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment

Disappointment

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "