Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

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Ben Mendelsohn

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 3, 1969

I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.

Ben Mendelsohn

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

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I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.

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You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

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I think Kyle Chandler is something of a national treasure.

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I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.

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Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.

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I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.

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I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

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I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

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There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

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As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

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At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

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Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

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The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

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One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

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I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

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I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

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I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.

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