Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
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Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
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Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.
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You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.
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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.
