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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. "

Haley Joel Osment

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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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" 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 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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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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