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 MENDELSOHNI’m very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.
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From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
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You can certainly extend your adolescence. There’s people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
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I’m very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I’ve spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
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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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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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Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.
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Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
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People don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.
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Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.
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As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there.
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