“You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.” Quote by Ben Mendelsohn
“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.” AbleWantedParentActingMovedKeep GoingLooking Pretty Author: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.” WorldWayMeanHomeAgeMy OwnChildhoodSkip Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.” ThinkingGivingSchoolCultureGuiltyEmsBags Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantIdeasFactsActorsActingPostsDe Niro Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“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.” PeopleDoeHappensRunningFoundBoysRolesCoupleSensitiveConfrontingWorking Life Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“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.” PeopleWayDangerousFangs Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.” WritingStarsRocksMilesExtrasNerdRock StarExtra Mile Author:Ben Mezrich
“There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.” WayWritingControversy Author:Ben Mezrich
“I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.” WorldWayBelieveI BelieveCompanyGoes OnInternetMembersBillionsPlatforms Author:Ben Mezrich