Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

Ben Mendelsohn

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Carnival

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

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
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

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

Mean
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

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

Able Acting Parent
There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There’s the two really tangible things that can stay.

BEN MENDELSOHN

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There’s the two really tangible things that can stay.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Doe Tangible Two
Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.
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Church Race
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.
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Boys Running
If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.

BEN MENDELSOHN

If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.
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Crash Lightning Thunder
I’ve spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

BEN MENDELSOHN

I’ve spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Careers
Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

BEN MENDELSOHN

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Carnival
People don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.
BEN MENDELSOHN

All Bad Ends
Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.

BEN MENDELSOHN

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.
BEN MENDELSOHN
I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.
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Winning
There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That’s the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn’t signed on for.

BEN MENDELSOHN

There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That’s the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn’t signed on for.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Bullshit Usual
Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.
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Aware Times
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there.

BEN MENDELSOHN

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Hypocrisy Outsider
There’s very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

BEN MENDELSOHN

There’s very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Criminal

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

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