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When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.

From Ben Mendelsohn

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

From 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.

From Ben Mendelsohn

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.

From 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.

From Ben Mendelsohn

I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.

From Ben Mendelsohn

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.

From Ben Mendelsohn

The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.

From 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.

From Ben Mendelsohn

$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.

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