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" 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. "

Haley Joel Osment

Process

Theatre

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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. "

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

" 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 think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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Basketball Player

Risks

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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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People

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