1. I am politically incorrect, that’s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find it really scary, and I won’t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone is not going to love you all the time. ~ Mel Gibson
2. Do you know what happens when you don’t take risks? Nothing. ~ Mel Gibson
3. They think I’m crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I’m a genius. ~ Mel Gibson
4. Every man dies. Not all men really live. ~ Mel Gibson
5. They can take our lives, but they will never take our freedom! ~ Mel Gibson
6. After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies between the conversation and the chocolate. ~ Mel Gibson
7. If he’s going to wear three hats, he’d better grow two more heads. ~ Mel Gibson
8. Pain is the harbinger of change. ~ Mel Gibson
9. I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. ~ Mel Gibson
10. I have never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality, period. However, I don’t blame some people for thinking that because of the crap they heard on those leaked tapes, that it has been edited. You have to put everything in the proper context of being in a heated, irrational argument at the height of a meltdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s a terrible, horrible moment in time, I told one person, in the span of a day and it doesn’t represent what I really believe or how I’ve treated people my whole life. ~ Mel Gibson
11. You can’t live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that’s my problem, not theirs. ~ Mel Gibson
12. My father told me from the beginning that it was a sin to worry too much. ~ Mel Gibson
13. A good conspiracy is not provable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they messed up somewhere along the line. ~ Mel Gibson
14. What did one pastor say to the other pastor? Let’s get the herd out of here. ~ Mel Gibson
15. Feminists don’t like me, and I don’t like them. ~ Mel Gibson
16. I think everything is pretty fated, even your mistakes. ~ Mel Gibson
17. A guy once told me something really deep, and it’s very simple. It’s that depression lies. He’s a liar and you have to turn him off. There is nothing that relieves you more than going out and doing something for someone else. It’s almost like an instant heal. Get away from yourself. People can’t even get out of bed and it becomes very serious. I have never been at that stage. Everyone goes through the low and the high and the low and the high, and some people are blessed to be created in a balanced way all the time, but not me. ~ Mel Gibson
18. I am not apologizing to anyone. I’ll apologize when hell freezes over. ~ Mel Gibson
19. The Zionists are the source of the destructions, I wish I could fight them. ~ Mel Gibson
20. One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn’t happened yet. ~ Mel Gibson
21. I don’t make things complicated, that’s the way they do themselves. ~ Mel Gibson
22. I love women. They are the best ever created. If you want to be like men and come down to our level, that’s fine. ~ Mel Gibson
23. If you’ve just read Joseph Campbell, who has written incredible books on mythology and religion, they all come together at some point. There are some of the best stories ever in the Bible. All you have to do is read Maccabi’s book, it’s like a movie script. ~ Mel Gibson
24. Every time you go out to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There is no guaranteed success. There is no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out, you go out with the possibility of a huge failure. ~ Mel Gibson
25. The really nice thing about using people who are really green is that you don’t have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put in the good ones. You can start feeding them good habits. ~ Mel Gibson
26. “Boot Camp” was great and very interesting. You have to use live bullets and do a lot of crawling around with live bullets flying around you, so you really have to learn to keep your butt down; everything else is important. ~ Mel Gibson
27. The whole notion of politics is that you’re always presented with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to stick to the prescribed formulas they have and people argue over them and they’re all in one box? And you see Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a story and it seems crazy to me. I silently support the candidates. I’m not out there beating a drum for the candidates. But I’ve endorsed a candidate and it’s a whole different world. ~ Mel Gibson
28. I have great respect for women. I love them. I don’t know why they want to quit. ~ Mel Gibson
29. There is no salvation for those outside the Church. ~ Mel Gibson
30. I am too rich to care what the critics say. ~ Mel Gibson
31. I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. Now, jokingly, I say that I have skin like a rhinoceros… and I’m smiling. It’s an interesting thing. ~ Mel Gibson
32. A woman should be at home with the children, build that house and make sure there is a safe family environment. ~ Mel Gibson
33. It is a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because how many mistakes do you make in one day? I don’t know about you, but I make a lot. You cannot turn back the clock, so one must look forward. ~ Mel Gibson
34. My father taught me my faith and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his entire life ~ Mel Gibson
35. I’ll get kicked for saying it, but men and women are just different. They are not the same. In the same way that you and I are not the same. ~ Mel Gibson
36. 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, joy and happiness, and it will always be the same. ~ Mel Gibson
37. I don’t think the public always listens to criticism. That has been proven time and time again. ~ Mel Gibson
38. You ask someone what their number one fear is, and it’s public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that’s what I’ve been through. ~ Mel Gibson
39. I think I have scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation. ~ Mel Gibson
40. God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. You can’t decide for yourself who comes to this world and who doesn’t. That decision does not belong to us. ~ Mel Gibson
41. Old habits die hard I guess. If you don’t kick them, they kick you. ~ Mel Gibson
42. Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. They pay me to tell elaborate lies. ~ Mel Gibson
43. I like directing much more. It’s more fun, that’s all. It’s essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over how you want to tell the story. It’s a tall I love it. ~ Mel Gibson
44. I rarely lose my temper. ~ Mel Gibson
45. I think any kind of break one takes on an artistic journey will make a world of difference. The pause will inform the choices you make. ~ Mel Gibson
46. Scotland is a great nation, but her horses are very uncomfortable. ~ Mel Gibson
47. I do what I can to avoid the clock: walk, swim, try to smoke an electric cigarette. I mean everything is bad for you. Life is bad. We are all dying. We are all in the process of oxidation. All of us are in the process of rusting, so to interrupt one aspect of that while everything else continues is a strange sight. ~ Mel Gibson
48. The LA Times is an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times. ~ Mel Gibson
49. But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I remember my father telling us that if we were in Australia, we would not be drafted until we were 20 years old. ~ Mel Gibson
50. I am always writing, there is always a story in my head. ~ Mel Gibson
51. All men die. Only a few live. ~ Mel Gibson
52. I am not an anti-Semite. My gospels are not anti-Semitic. I have shown it to many Jews and they say it is not anti-Semitic. It’s interesting that the people who say it’s anti-Semitic say it before they see the movie, and they say the same thing after they see the movie. ~ Mel Gibson
53. In India it is believed that all creatures have a purpose. ~ Mel Gibson
54. He was known to be a bit of a clown. I remember my dad pulling me aside and saying, Just remember, everyone likes a clown, but no one pays him. I have often been tempted to call him and say: Do you remember how you told me…? Yeah? They Yes. ~ Mel Gibson
55. My whole approach to the locker room is to throw him in a suitcase and make sure he’s not pushed, for Pete’s sake, so he can try to show a little wrinkly charm. Actually, I’m just a pig. I have coffee stains on my pants. I think they’re coffee stains, anyway. ~ Mel Gibson
56. There are certain things that men will never understand about women. We will never get it. And you’re supposed to be nice to them. Because they can hurt you. ~ Mel Gibson
57. I will always keep working. I’ve never been very dependent on anyone but myself, as far as that goes. ~ Mel Gibson
58. I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it’s like a spiritual cancer that afflicts you. ~ Mel Gibson
59. I once had a female business partner. It didn’t work. ~ Mel Gibson
60. There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don’t know how people can function without believing in a deity. ~ Mel Gibson
61. The cinema is fantastic. I don’t think anything can replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can do it at home if you have a good screen, but it’s not the same. ~ Mel Gibson
62. The women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. Boys are usually wrong. ~ Mel Gibson
63. It’s great that after 700 years William Wallace finally had a proper burial. He did a lot for the country. He should be proud of what he has achieved through giving back. ~ Mel Gibson
64. With this look, who’s going to think I’m gay? I don’t lend myself to that kind of confusion. Do I see myself as a homosexual? Do I speak like them? Do I move like them? ~ Mel Gibson
65. There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with changes in speed and sound, and various other things. Of course there are links; The same kind of sensibilities went into it and I worked on writing that script as well, so there was an emphasis on minimizing the dialogue as much as possible, to focus on the visual and put it in another language, of course. ~ Mel Gibson
66. Pop culture has gotten more frenetic. There are more forces at work that are much more invasive. However, I think it would be perfectly feasible to defend loved ones from some of the harsher aspects of public life. You are not going to be 100% successful. But you can see when it’s on purpose. It’s very easy to avoid sometimes and you can tell when it was unavoidable. ~ Mel Gibson
67. I did a lot of crazy things, so I’m surprised to be alive. ~ Mel Gibson
68. Above all, film is a business… Independence is a great thing, since you can be a little more daring and take a little more risk with what you do. ~ Mel Gibson
69. That’s like asking you to choose your favorite child… However, I think “Bird on a Wire” was one of my best works. Oscar caliber. ~ Mel Gibson
70. It is said that I was enraged, but I think it lasted for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a great thing. I apologized profusely, not once, but three times. So what is the problem? Four years ago. Do I need to apologize again? ~ Mel Gibson
71. Writing is hard work, and it’s hard to convey much. That’s why hyphens tend to overwrite each other a bit. ~ Mel Gibson
72. People always ask me to list my biggest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I’ve done, but what I’m most proud of is my kids. ~ Mel Gibson
73. I got the acting bug because I suddenly felt like maybe after all these years, maybe I could have something to offer again. I walked away after ‘Signs’ because I felt it was a bit stale and didn’t ring my bell, so I focused on directing, writing and producing. ~ Mel Gibson
74. My hope is that this film affects people on a very deep level and reaches them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness. ~ Mel Gibson
75. There is no excuse, nor should there be tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any type of anti-Semitic comment. I want to specifically apologize to all members of the Jewish community for the vile and hurtful words I spoke to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested. ~ Mel Gibson
76. The only way to maintain a moderate amount of happiness in this life is to not worry about the future or regret the past too much. ~ Mel Gibson
77. It is time to return to a basic message, the message that was given to you. Right now, the world has gone crazy, I think. And this film speaks: well, Christ spoke of faith, hope, love and forgiveness. And these are things that I think we need to remember again. He forgave when he was tortured and killed. And we could do a little bit of that behavior. ~ Mel Gibson
78. I tell you what really turns me on: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be his granddaughter. ~ Mel Gibson
79. People like scary stories. There is a fascination with scary subjects, and we want to deal with those things in a strange and subconscious way. ~ Mel Gibson
80. What I’m doing is making an action-adventure movie of mythical proportions. ~ Mel Gibson
