Quotes from Mel Gibson


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I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.


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


It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.


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


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


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.


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.


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


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


I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.


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.


I don't care if I don't act anymore.


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.


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.


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.


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?


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


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


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


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