Haley Joel Osment Quotes

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Haley Joel Osment

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 10, 1988

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.

Haley Joel Osment

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.

Haley Joel Osment

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.

Haley Joel Osment

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.

Haley Joel Osment

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.

Haley Joel Osment

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.

Haley Joel Osment

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.

Haley Joel Osment

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.

Haley Joel Osment