Mel Gibson Quotes (34 Quotes)


    But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

    This guy has a sense of integrity, but it's very misguided.

    I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre. So I think we almost had to come up with something utterly different like this.

    After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

    I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.


    The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

    It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous people and actors from Mexico City,

    It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar. While eating a dog biscuit at Harvard.

    What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

    Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

    It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

    an action adventure of mythic proportions.

    A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

    I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

    I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

    What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

    The Passion' is a movie meant to inspire not offend. My intention in bringing it to the screen is to create a lasting work of art and engender serious thought among audiences of diverse faith backgrounds.

    Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

    Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

    They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.

    And no cheating with subtitles, either The audience will have to focus on the visuals, ... But they had silent films before talkies arrived, and people went to see them.

    to create a lasting work of art and engender serious thought among audiences of diverse faith backgrounds (or none) who have varying familiarity with this story.

    And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

    I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

    Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

    Although (the Mayan culture) is an integral part of the story, what I am doing is creating an action-adventure of mythic proportions ... and I am a megalomaniac, so I like the position.

    It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for the country. You should be proud of what you have achieved through devolution.

    Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

    I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

    Boats, cars, and sex -- you have to touch them all lightly or they lose their glamor.

    Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

    I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

    If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.

    That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.


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