Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

Ben Mendelsohn

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• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Job
  • Help
  • Guy

• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Wish
  • Paint
  • I Wish

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Guy
  • Think
  • Match

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Causes
  • Avoid
  • Compromises

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Better
  • Regret

• I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Judge

• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Music
  • Mathematics
  • Perfume

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Acting
  • Part
  • Hardest

• In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Need

• Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Kind
  • Eyes
  • Television

• As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Emotional

• I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

  

  Meghan Ory
  • Fun

• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Die
  • Heaven

• I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter.

  

  Peter Doig
  • Summer
  • Grandparents

• I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Success