Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

Ben Mendelsohn

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• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Decision

• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Water
  • Same
  • Beer

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Change

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • America
  • War
  • Military

• Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Community

• When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Film
  • Message
  • Picky

• An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • High
  • Running
  • Practice

• I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Opportunity
  • Story
  • Creative

• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Hope
  • Education

• Doing good isn't that hard. It's just doing a lot of good that is very hard. If your aims are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, you can cause a great deal of damage.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Good
  • Great

• That was the stuff of other lives, he was waiting for his to begin. He got in the habit of walking around the trailer and asking aloud, 'Who knows?' He said, 'Who knows?' For no one knew. He meant, anything could happen. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • May
  • Fall
  • Waiting

• Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Control
  • Red
  • Army

• I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Know
  • Day
  • Will

• Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

  

  James Gray
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Distance

• Opening day is always so cool to be a part of and to people watch. The Pacific Classic, which I've had the privilege of riding in a couple of times, is great. Every day at Del Mar is fantastic. I love the smells, working out on the beach, running the stairs. It's just a healthy environment. I love it.

  

  Chantal Sutherland
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• 'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn