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

~Ben Mendelsohn

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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.

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

~Ben Mendelsohn

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

~Ben Mendelsohn

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

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I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Actor

Born: April 3rd, 1969

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