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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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" 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

Heights

Normal

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

" 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