Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ben Mendelsohn on Wise Famous Quotes.
At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.
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.
I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.
I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.
I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.
There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better than I dress myself.
The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up with stuff.
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
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.
'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.
I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.
My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.
Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
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.
If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours.
My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.
One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.
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.