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 MENDELSOHNYou can certainly extend your adolescence. There’s people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
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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 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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I’ve spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
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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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You can certainly extend your adolescence. There’s people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
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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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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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From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
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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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If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.
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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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Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.
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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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