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 MENDELSOHNPeople don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.
More Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.
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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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People don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.
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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 a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.
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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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There’s very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
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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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From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
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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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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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You can certainly extend your adolescence. There’s people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
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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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As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there.
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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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