Top 30 Mel Gibson Quotes

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.

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.

I don’t think the audience always listens to the critics. That’s been proven time and time again.

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’m as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can’t see it, because it’s reality-based.

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.

I don’t think we’re crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it’s good to be mindful that we’re all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they – destruction of the environment? Conspicuous consumption? Heard of those?

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven’t done before.

Change is always preceded 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 tough for me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don’t press it, for Pete’s sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I’m just a pig. I’ve got coffee stains on my pants. I think they’re coffee stains, anyway.

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.

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

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

My biggest weakness is that I’m excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I’m not as excessive as I used to be.

I could easily not act again. It’s not a problem.

I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.

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.

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.

I think everything is pretty well preordained – even your mistakes.

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.

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.

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

People like scary stories. There’s a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.