Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Mel Gibson - Page 2

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

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

I have tremendous respect for women. I love them. I don't know why they want to step down.

What are you looking at sugar-tits?

I'm not apologizing to anyone. I'll apologize when hell freezes over.

I rarely lose my temper anymore.

A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

F**king Jews...the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

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.

There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things. Sure there are links; the same kind of sensibilities went into it and I worked on writing that script as well so there was an emphasis on a minimalisation of dialogue as far as possible, to focus on the visual and to put it in another language, of course.

It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar.

I'm too rich to care what the critics say.

Zionists are the source of destructions, I wish I can fight against them.

My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.

I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting that the people who say it's anti-Semitic say that before they saw the film, and they said the same thing after they saw the film.

The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.

You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.

An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants.

I did a lot of crazy things so I'm surprised to be alive.

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?

If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads.

The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.

Pain is the precursor to change.

One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet.

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

You know what happens when you don't take a risk? Nothing.

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.

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.

Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!

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.

A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.

Women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. The guys usually mess up.

I do what I can to sort of just stave off the clock - walk, swim, try and smoke an electric cigarette. I mean it's all bad for you. Life is bad. 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.

I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal.

My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.

I've got one of Darwin's books at home and some of that stuff is pretty damn funny. Some of his stuff is true, like that the giraffe has a long neck so it can reach the leaves. But I just don't think you can swallow the whole piece.

There is no salvation for those outside the Church.

I'm Hitler and my dad is Mussolini!

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

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.

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.

I was known for being a bit of a clown. I remember my dad got me aside and said, "Just remember, everybody likes a clown, but nobody pays him." I've often been tempted to call him and say, "Remember how you told me...?" "Yeah?" "Yes, they do."

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

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

I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

The pop culture has become more frenetic. There are more forces at work that are far more invasive. However, I think it would be perfectly doable to defend ones loved ones from some of the harsher aspects of public life. You’re not going to be a 100% successful. But you can see when it’s on purpose. It’s so blatantly easy to avoid at times and you can tell when it was unavoidable.

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?

Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.

In India it is believed that all creatures have a purpose.

The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.

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.

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.

All men die. Only a few ever live.

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.

I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine.

What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here.

Men and women are not equal.