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From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

Ben Mendelsohn

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

Aware Life Thinking Times
From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Better Fantastic Get Views
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’s very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Country Criminal Government
People don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.
BEN MENDELSOHN

All Bad Ends People
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
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
Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
BEN MENDELSOHN

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

Crash Lightning Thunder
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
Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Exercise Heart Soul
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
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
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 MENDELSOHN

Bullshit Creative Usual
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Country Hypocrisy Outsider

From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

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