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 Read Quote
What I like least about acting is that when you’re only in one place, you’re missing the other part of life. Haley Joel Osment Read Quote
I try to steer away from doing something that’s just commercial instead of sticking to a good script. Haley Joel Osment Read Quote
When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial. Haley Joel Osment Read Quote
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! Haley Joel Osment Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
