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Ben Mendelsohn
Australian
April 3, 1969
Actor
Fifteen years old, out in the world, acting was all I had.
Ben Mendelsohn
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If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
Ben Mendelsohn
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Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
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I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.
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I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
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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.
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I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
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When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.
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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.
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I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.
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