Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

I'm very cagey by nature.
I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.
In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'
It's a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don't get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That's a tougher price, I think, than what people's fantasy of fame account for.
It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.
Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.
Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.
One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.
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.
The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
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