Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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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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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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I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.
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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
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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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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 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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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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It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
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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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I'm very cagey by nature.
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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 grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.