Words matter. These are the best Haley Joel Osment Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
It’s hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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.
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.
I try to steer away from doing something that’s just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.
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 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.
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.
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.
My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn’t seem like a radical thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn’t cautious with whatever he does.
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.
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.
I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
Having that college experience and a social life that didn’t revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
