Haley Joel Osment Quotes

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

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• I’ve never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

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

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

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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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• 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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• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing.

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• It’s hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I’m going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

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

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Haley Joel Osment (21)

Birth:	10th April, 1988
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Haley Joel Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing the title character’s son, Osment rose to fame for his performance as a young unwilling medium in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Mimi Leder's Pay It Forward. He plays the guitar and piano. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2011.

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