Top 90 Mel Gibson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

52. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

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

— Mel Gibson

54. “I walked away from acting for eight years and tried to make the choice that I should have made when I was 21. But, it doesn’t make any difference. Nothing changed. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.”

— Mel Gibson

55. “All experiences, what does not kill you makes you stronger and tougher I think. Life’s experiences, whether they be pleasant, unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, season you somehow and you learn from them.”

— Mel Gibson

56. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

57. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

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

— Mel Gibson

59. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

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

— Mel Gibson

61. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

62. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

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

— Mel Gibson

64. “I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.”

— Mel Gibson

65. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

66. “I don’t care if I don’t act anymore.”

— Mel Gibson

67. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

68. “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?”

— Mel Gibson

69. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

70. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

71. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

72. “I did a lot of crazy things so I’m surprised to be alive.”

— Mel Gibson

73. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

74. “After about twenty 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.”

— Mel Gibson

75. “I think I’ve scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.”

— Mel Gibson

76. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

77. “Writing is a hard gig, and it’s hard to convey a lot. That’s why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.”

— Mel Gibson

78. “What I’m doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.”

— Mel Gibson

79. “I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality – period.”

— Mel Gibson

80. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

81. “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?”

— Mel Gibson

82. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

83. “It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar.”

— Mel Gibson

84. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

85. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

86. “There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.”

— Mel Gibson

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

— Mel Gibson

88. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

89. “Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.”

— Mel Gibson

90. “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.”

— Mel Gibson

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

— Mel Gibson

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

— Mel Gibson