Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.
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I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
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My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.
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Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
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My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.
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'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
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In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.
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As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.
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I have an intensive relationship with the thing that I'm working on, and I hope that comes through. It's better for me to not worry about the things I can't fix once they're done.
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I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.
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At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.
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As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
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I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
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If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
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The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.
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If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.
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It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
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I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.
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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 very cagey by nature.
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Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.
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Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
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I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
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It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'