A biography for Ben Mendelsohnhasn’t been written yet.
“I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.”
“As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.”
“I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better than I dress myself.”
“In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.”
“It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.”
“Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.”
“'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.”
“You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.”
“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.”
“'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?”
“I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.”
“I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.”
“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.”
“The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up with stuff.”
“I think Kyle Chandler is something of a national treasure.”
“$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.”
“'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.”
“I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.”
“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.”
“It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'”