Haley Joel Osment Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”