Quotes by Mel Gibson

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
• I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.
• 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.
• I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
• I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.
• 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.
• If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
• It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
• The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
• 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.
• Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
• 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.
• 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.