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


Ben Mendelsohn

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BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte...
BEN HECHT Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL