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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.

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

Giving School Thinking
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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Bullshit Creative Usual
People don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.
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All Bad Ends People
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 Couple Running
From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
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Better Fantastic Get Views
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.
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Dangerous People Way
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.
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Doe Family Tangible Two World
There’s very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
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Country Criminal Government
Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.
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Aware Life Thinking Times
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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Childhood Home Mean
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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Important Thinking Winning
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there.
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Country Hypocrisy Outsider
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 Thinking
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There’s people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
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Adolescence Good People Very
Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.
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Exercise Heart Soul
Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
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Carnival Film Kind
I’ve spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
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Careers Degree Ideas
If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.
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Crash Lightning Thunder
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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Catholic Stuff Teaching

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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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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