Ben Mendelsohn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#America #Hypocrisy #Outsiders
One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#Running #Couple #Boys
I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#Thinking #Ideas #Acting
I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#School #Thinking #Giving
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.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#Home #Mean #Childhood
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.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#Parent #Acting #Able
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#People #Very Good #Adolescence
There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#Government #America #Criminals
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#Careers #Ideas #Degrees
Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#Heart #Exercise #Soul
The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#People #Way #Dangerous

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