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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

Country Hypocrisy Outsider
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

Doe Family Tangible Two World
If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Crash Lightning Thunder
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There’s people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Adolescence Good People Very
From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Better Fantastic Get Views
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.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Church Race Thinking
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

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

Carnival Film Kind
I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Important Thinking Winning
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.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Catholic Stuff Teaching
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

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

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

Country Criminal Government
Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Aware Life Thinking Times
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

Giving School Thinking

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