A biography for Haley Joel Osmenthasn’t been written yet.
“I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.”
“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.”
“The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.”
“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'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.”
“My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.”
“I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.”
“I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.”
“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.”
“That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.”
“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.”
“Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.”
“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.”
“People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.”
“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 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.”