Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
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We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
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I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
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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.
