Ben Mendelsohn's Profile
Brief about Ben Mendelsohn: By info that we know Ben Mendelsohn was born at 1969-04-03. And also Ben Mendelsohn is Australian Actor.
Some Ben Mendelsohn's quotes. Goto "Ben Mendelsohn's quotation" section for more.Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
Tags: Acting, Heart, SoulAs an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
Tags: America, Hypocrisy, OutsiderI've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
Tags: Career, Ideas, ThoughtThere's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
Tags: America, Between, GovernmentYou can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
Tags: Extend, Extending, GoodAt 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.
Tags: Good, Parents, PrettyI 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.
Tags: Age, Home, MeanI 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.
Tags: Give, School, ThoughtI 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 think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
Tags: Forward, True, WorkOne 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.
Tags: Happen, Life, ThoughtThe 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.
Tags: Dangerous, Drawn, LifeI myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
Tags: Getting, Love, TriedI listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.
Tags: Music, Old, RockRelated topics
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