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Ben Mendelsohn Biography

Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor, who first rose to prominence in Australia for his role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and internationally for his role in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010).

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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 they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

Boys, Confronting, Couple, Running, Things, Times

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

People, Very Good, Adolescence, Extending, Indefinitely

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

Ends, Know, People, Thing, Who I Am

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.

Church, Decide, Race, Races, Story, Thinking

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

Acting, Exercise, Heart, Soul

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.

Bullshit, Creative, Happened, Production, Usual

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.

Acting, Actors, Forward, Ideas, Punishing, Thinking

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.

Long, Move, Moving, People, Sort, Sound

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

Crash, Lightning, Like, Ride, Thunder

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.

Dangerous, Drawn, Encountered, Interpret, People, Way

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

America, Criminals, Different, Government, Operates

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

Career, Careers, Degrees, Ideas, Substance, Various

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

Carnivals, Crewing, Film, Kind, Sets

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.

Big, Catholic, Christianity, Jesuits, Stuff, Teaching

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