Ben Mendelsohn Quotations

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.

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

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

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.

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

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

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

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

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