Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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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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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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The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
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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 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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'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
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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 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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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 like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
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As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
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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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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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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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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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Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
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I'm very cagey by nature.
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It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'
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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 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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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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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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One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.