Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
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There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
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I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.
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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
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I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.
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I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.
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Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.
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I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.
