Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
It's a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don't get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That's a tougher price, I think, than what people's fantasy of fame account for.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
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I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.
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When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.
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It's a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don't get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That's a tougher price, I think, than what people's fantasy of fame account for.
