Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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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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I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
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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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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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It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
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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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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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'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
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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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'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
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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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I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
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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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I'm very cagey by nature.
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As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
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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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I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
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There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.
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Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
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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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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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It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'
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I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
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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.