Top 100 Mel Gibson Quotes
#1. Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.
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#2. You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it's just a sense of something.
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#3. I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.
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#4. If you're making a cake, you don't just make the cake and have it look nice and have nobody tastes it. But that doesn't take away from your ability to execute what you do as well as you can and to have it be something for many.
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#6. I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.
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#7. It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.
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#8. Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.
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#9. I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.
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#10. I'm too rich to care what the critics say.
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#11. I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.
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#14. The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.
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#15. My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.
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#16. My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be.
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#17. When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.
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#18. Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.
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#19. Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.
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#20. I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.
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#21. I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
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#22. I got a chiropractor to come along to the Patriot shoot, because they can actually stick you back together within 15 minutes. He spent a week and worked on the entire crew. All the stunt guys were like, 'Oh, fix my disc.' The guy's amazing.
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#23. People always ask me to list my greatest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I've made, but what I'm proudest of is my kids.
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#24. God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One can't decide for oneself who comes into this world and who doesn't. That decision doesn't belong to us.
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#26. 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.
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#27. If you're going to wear three hats. You'd better grow two more heads.
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#28. My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.
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#31. They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
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#32. 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.
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#33. Zionists are the source of destructions, I wish I can fight against them.
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#34. We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.
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#35. It's said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely-not once but three times. So what's the problem? It's four years ago. Do I need to apologize again?
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#36. In India it is believed that all creatures have a purpose.
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#37. Hey, I'm for love, not war. How about we have a beer?
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#38. Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.
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#39. I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.
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#42. I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.
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#43. One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet.
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#44. Boy, there's nothing more thrilling than a chase. I'd often thought, over the years, that someone should do a whole film where it's nothing but a chase.
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#45. I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.
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#46. 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.
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#47. The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that you are working in a factory and you're part of the mechanism. If you break down, you'll be replaced.
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#50. With this look, who's going to think I'm gay? I don't lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I look like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?
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#51. Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.
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#52. A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
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#53. If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.
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#54. 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.
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#55. I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.
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#56. People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
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#57. You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
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#58. F**king Jews ... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.
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#59. I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.
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#60. It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.
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#61. I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.
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#62. There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
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#63. Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
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#64. I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.
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#65. My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.
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#66. You know what happens when you don't take a risk? Nothing.
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#67. I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros ... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.
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#68. I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.
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#69. They think I'm crazy, and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.
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#70. What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.
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#71. An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants.
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#72. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.
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#75. What are you looking at sugar-tits?
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#76. If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
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#77. The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.
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#78. We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?
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#79. What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let's get the flock out of here.
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#80. A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.
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#81. I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.
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#82. The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much
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#83. Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
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#84. Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.
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#87. I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.
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#90. Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.
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#91. It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
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#92. You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.
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#93. Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
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#94. Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
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#95. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.
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#96. My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.
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#97. Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.
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#98. 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.
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#99. I don't care if I don't act anymore.
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#100. I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.
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