Haley Joel Osment

“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.”

“It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.”

“When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.”

“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.”

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

“I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.”

“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.”

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

“My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.”

“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.”

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