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" When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial. "
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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me. "
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" Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen. "
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