Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.Ben Mendelsohn
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
Naomi Watts -
I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
J. D. Souther -
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas -
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
Nadia Comaneci -
The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
Parker Posey
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
Jackie DeShannon -
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
Laura Schlessinger -
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
Patanjali -
I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
Zooey Deschanel -
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
Dale Carnegie
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
Abbey Clancy -
One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
Ian Mckellen -
I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
Laura Vandervoort -
My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
Oliver Stone -
Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
Iain Banks -
It takes two to speak the truth, - one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
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What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
Mary Beard -
To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.
Alan Alda -
There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last.
Mikhail Bulgakov -
I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.
Emily Yoffe -
Another world is possible, without the 1 percent.
Winnie Byanyima -
I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.
Ben Mendelsohn