Quotes from Haley Joel Osment

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.

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

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

What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

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.

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.

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!