There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.
Ben MendelsohnYou can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
Ben MendelsohnI've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
Ben MendelsohnActing is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.
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