Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.

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• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

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• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

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• I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

  

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• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

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• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

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• It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

  

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• I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

  

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• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  

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• Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

  

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• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

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• I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

  

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• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  

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• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

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• I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

  

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• A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

  

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• When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

  

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• I love working in television and film, but it's completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love to be a lady who gets to work in all of the mediums and who calls the theater her home.

  

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• Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

  

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• I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
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