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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.
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The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
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A revolution will only be achieved when the ordinary people of the world, us, the working class, get up off our knees and take back what is rightfully ours.
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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.
