Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
- As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
- Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
- I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
- There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
- You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I…
- 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,…
- 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…