Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) Quotes

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

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• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Swear
  • Honorable

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• America has much greatness left in her.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Greatness
  • Her

• I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Myself

• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Now
  • Ridiculous
  • Purity

• In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • America
  • Dislike

• One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Important
  • You
  • Grass

• Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Imagination
  • Body
  • Radio

• I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Time
  • World
  • Think

• All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Brother
  • Sister
  • Costume

• People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Love
  • Capable

• Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

  

  Gallagher
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Thought

• I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Choose

• I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

  

  Kate Spade
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Girl
  • Late
  • Meets

• In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Feeling
  • Consciousness
  • Destruction

• It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Rooms
  • Proof
  • Noise

• Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.

  

  David Goggins
  • Sleep
  • Failure
  • Option

• When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Up
  • Team
  • Running

• I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.

  

  Alyssa Sutherland
  • People
  • Fun

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

  

  Mel Gibson