Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn't make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.
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Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.
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It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.
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The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
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I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
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If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
