Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'
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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
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I don't mind being the one people talk about. It doesn't weigh on me.
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When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.
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One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
