Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) Quotes

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.

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• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  

  Jack Black
  • Parents
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Years

• The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Nature

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Sexy
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • Try
  • Now

• Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Time
  • Fire
  • Cold

• My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Want
  • Fans
  • Say

• No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

  

  Dan Devine
  • House
  • U.S.
  • Our

• If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

  

  Said Nursi
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Eye

• My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Real
  • Done
  • Respect

• If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• Steady of heart, and stout of hand.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Heart
  • Hand

• I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Writing

• There is, toward the Front, a suspicion of anti-Semitism, and it is totally at odds with the real danger due to mass immigration and the rise of Islamism.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Real
  • Immigration

• Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Book

• Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

  

  Charles Stross
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Wall

• History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

  

  David Drake
  • Decision
  • Search
  • Activity

• 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.

  

  Mel Gibson