From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
BEN MENDELSOHNFrom my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
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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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People don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.
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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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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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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 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’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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Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.
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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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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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Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.
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If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.
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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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There’s very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
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