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

There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.

Ben Mendelsohn

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

Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.

Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn

I have an intensive relationship with the thing that I'm working on, and I hope that comes through. It's better for me to not worry about the things I can't fix once they're done.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

Ben Mendelsohn

I got a good-enough adolescence. 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.

Ben Mendelsohn

One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.

Ben Mendelsohn

I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.

Ben Mendelsohn

'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?

Ben Mendelsohn

The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.

Ben Mendelsohn

$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.

Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn

Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

Ben Mendelsohn

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn

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

Ben Mendelsohn

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

Ben Mendelsohn

The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very cagey by nature.

Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn

I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better than I dress myself.

Ben Mendelsohn

The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.

Ben Mendelsohn

'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.

Ben Mendelsohn

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

Ben Mendelsohn

The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.

Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

Ben Mendelsohn

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

Ben Mendelsohn

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.

Ben Mendelsohn

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.

Ben Mendelsohn