Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

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.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

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.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.