Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) Quotes
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.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out.
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Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we´re dealt. We gotta take these cards ourselves and flip ém, don´t expect no help!
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.
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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.
