62 Quotes by Haley Joel Osment

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.

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.

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 had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

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.

A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.

What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

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!