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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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 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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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
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I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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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.
