Haley Joel Osment

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

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.

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.

The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.

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

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.