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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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" 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

Early

Parents

Living

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Thing

Seem

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

You

Sense

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Haley Joel Osment

People

Know

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

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

Haley Joel Osment

You

Image

" 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. "

" 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. "