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11 quotes by Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn Mendelsohn at the Australian premiere of Killing Them Softly, 24 September 2012 Born Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (1969-04-03) 3 April 1969 (age 45) Melbourne, Australia Nationality Australian Occupation Actor Years active 1984–present Spouse(s) Emma Forrest (m. 2012) Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor known for his work in the films Animal Kingdom, The Dark Knight Rises, Killing Them...
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As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

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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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You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

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At 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... →

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One 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... →

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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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There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

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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... →

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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... →

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I 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... →

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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... →

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