205 Quotes by Mel Gibson

You ask anybody 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.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don’t know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Hey, I’m for love, not war. How about we have a beer?

I don’t think of myself as either American or Australian really, I’m a true hybrid. It’s a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

I’m always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it’s just a sense of something.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you’ve got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

You can’t live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that’s my problem, not theirs.

If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it’s like a film script.