Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn
Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohnis an Australian actor, who first rose to prominence for his role in the Australian film The Year My Voice Brokeand continued to have major roles in Australian films such as The Big Steal, Metal Skin, Cosi, Mulletand Australia...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth3 April 1969
CountryAustralia
careers ideas substance
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
thinking ideas acting
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 think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
moving people long
As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.
kind film carnivals
Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
teaching catholic stuff
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.
who-i-am people ends
People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.
views get-better fantastic
From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
winning thinking important
I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.
america hypocrisy outsiders
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
heart exercise soul
Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
thinking race church
Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.
government america littles
There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
parent acting able
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 to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.
bullshit creative stuff
There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That's the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn't signed on for.