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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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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

Outside

Imagine

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment

Life

Face

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "