Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

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Ben Mendelsohn

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 3, 1969

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

Ben Mendelsohn

I got a good-enough adolescence. 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.

Ben Mendelsohn

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

Ben Mendelsohn

I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.

Ben Mendelsohn

When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

Ben Mendelsohn

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

Ben Mendelsohn

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.

Ben Mendelsohn

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.

Ben Mendelsohn

The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.

Ben Mendelsohn

Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours.

Ben Mendelsohn

$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.

Ben Mendelsohn

At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

Ben Mendelsohn

My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.

Ben Mendelsohn

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.

Ben Mendelsohn

'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.

Ben Mendelsohn

You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.

Ben Mendelsohn

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

Ben Mendelsohn