90 Quotes by Ben Mendelsohn

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

I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.