Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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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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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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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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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'
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Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.
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Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
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A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.
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If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
