Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn
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.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

I've been a Ryan Reynolds fan since the first time I saw him.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

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

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up with stuff.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

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.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

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

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.

Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

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