As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.
Ben MendelsohnFrom my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
Ben MendelsohnI've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
Ben MendelsohnI'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.
Ben MendelsohnThere's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
Ben MendelsohnYou can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
Ben MendelsohnI 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.
Ben Mendelsohn