If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.
BEN MENDELSOHN
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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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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.
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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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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 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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