205 Quotes by Mel Gibson

"People always ask me to list my greatest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I've made, but what I'm proudest of is my kids."

"The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic."

"Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you."

"Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies."

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"

"I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes."

"The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. Nobody is the same. I'll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they're all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I'm not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it's a whole other world."

"It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something."

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives."

"I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they - destruction of the environment? Conspicuous consumption? Heard of those?"