Australian - Actor | April 3, 1969 -
I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.
Ben Mendelsohn
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I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.
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The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up with stuff.
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The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
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I'm very cagey by nature.
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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.
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Fifteen years old, out in the world, acting was all I had.
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I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.
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I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
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'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
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I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better than I dress myself.
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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.
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