Haley Joel Osment Quotes

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

Acting is always a challenge.

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

Auditioning is always so different for different things.

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it.

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

I knew that acting is like anything - you learn from doing it.

Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.

I'm not a very good actor.

I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading.

I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.

Everything I've done I've always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it's been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they're like, 'You ready kid? Let's go.'