93+ Mel Gibson Quotes (Dramatic, Intense And Iconic)

Actor Mel Gibson is an American-Australian actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning Braveheart, as well as his box-office hits such as the Lethal Weapon franchise, The Patriot, and the Mad Max films. Gibson has also been nominated for several awards, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, and two BAFTA Awards.

Top 10 Mel Gibson Quotes

1. I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.
2. They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
3. F**king Jews...the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.
4. After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
5. A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.
6. Zionists are the source of destructions, I wish I can fight against them.
7. Pain is the precursor to change.
8. It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
9. My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.
10. Women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. The guys usually mess up.

Mel Gibson Short Quotes

• Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
• The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
• I'm not apologizing to anyone. I'll apologize when hell freezes over.
• Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.
• I rarely lose my temper anymore.
• The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.
• I'm Hitler and my dad is Mussolini!
• You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.
• You know what happens when you don't take a risk? Nothing.
• I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.

Mel Gibson Famous Quotes And Sayings

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter. — Mel Gibson

Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?! — Mel Gibson

I got a chiropractor to come along to the Patriot shoot, because they can actually stick you back together within 15 minutes. He spent a week and worked on the entire crew. All the stunt guys were like, 'Oh, fix my disc.' The guy's amazing. — Mel Gibson

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. — Mel Gibson

God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One can't decide for oneself who comes into this world and who doesn't. That decision doesn't belong to us. — Mel Gibson

There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested. — Mel Gibson

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20. — Mel Gibson

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work-wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow. — Mel Gibson

It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for the country. You should be proud of what you have achieved through devolution. — 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. — Mel Gibson

In India it is believed that all creatures have a purpose. — Mel Gibson

The pop culture has become more frenetic. There are more forces at work that are far more invasive. However, I think it would be perfectly doable to defend ones loved ones from some of the harsher aspects of public life. You’re not going to be a 100% successful. But you can see when it’s on purpose. It’s so blatantly easy to avoid at times and you can tell when it was unavoidable. — Mel Gibson

I walked away from acting for eight years and tried to make the choice that I should have made when I was 21. But, it doesn't make any difference. Nothing changed. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. — Mel Gibson

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them, if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said. — Mel Gibson

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion. — Mel Gibson

It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar. — Mel Gibson

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. — Mel Gibson

Hey, I'm for love, not war. How about we have a beer? — Mel Gibson

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter. — Mel Gibson

With this look, who's going to think I'm gay? I don't lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I look like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them? — Mel Gibson

What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here. — Mel Gibson

All men die. Only a few ever live. — Mel Gibson

I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize. — Mel Gibson

I have tremendous respect for women. I love them. I don't know why they want to step down. — Mel Gibson

Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing. — Mel Gibson

If you're making a cake, you don't just make the cake and have it look nice and have nobody tastes it. But that doesn't take away from your ability to execute what you do as well as you can and to have it be something for many. — Mel Gibson

I do what I can to sort of just stave off the clock - walk, swim, try and smoke an electric cigarette. I mean it's all bad for you. Life is bad. We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show. — Mel Gibson

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it. — Mel Gibson

I was known for being a bit of a clown. I remember my dad got me aside and said, "Just remember, everybody likes a clown, but nobody pays him." I've often been tempted to call him and say, "Remember how you told me...?" "Yeah?" "Yes, they do." — Mel Gibson

Women are just different. Their sensibilities are different. — Mel Gibson

Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me. — Mel Gibson

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff. — Mel Gibson

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine. — Mel Gibson

I'm not much of a conformist. — Mel Gibson

An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants. — Mel Gibson

It's time to sort of get back to a basic message, the message that was given. At this time, the world has gone nuts, I think. And this film speaks - well, Christ spoke of faith, hope, love and forgiveness. And these are things I think we need to be reminded of again. He forgave as he was tortured and killed. And we could do with a little of that behavior. — Mel Gibson

All experiences, what does not kill you makes you stronger and tougher I think. Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant, unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, season you somehow and you learn from them. — Mel Gibson

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius. — Mel Gibson

There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things. Sure 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 a minimalisation of dialogue as far as possible, to focus on the visual and to put it in another language, of course. — Mel Gibson

There are certain things men will never understand about women. We'll never get it. And you're supposed to be nice to them. Because they can hurt you. — Mel Gibson

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber. — Mel Gibson

I'm too rich to care what the critics say. — Mel Gibson

What are you looking at sugar-tits? — Mel Gibson

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? — Mel Gibson

There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished. — Mel Gibson

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world. — Mel Gibson

I get pretty dark sometimes, pretty bleak. But that passes. — Mel Gibson

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you. — Mel Gibson

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. — Mel Gibson

My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don't press it, for Pete's sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I'm just a pig. I've got coffee stains on my pants. I think they're coffee stains, anyway. — Mel Gibson

The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much — Mel Gibson

I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting that the people who say it's anti-Semitic say that before they saw the film, and they said the same thing after they saw the film. — Mel Gibson

Men and women are not equal. — Mel Gibson

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable. — Mel Gibson

The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits. — Mel Gibson

I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal. — Mel Gibson

It's said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely - not once but three times. So what's the problem? It's four years ago. Do I need to apologize again? — Mel Gibson

I did a lot of crazy things so I'm surprised to be alive. — Mel Gibson

There is no salvation for those outside the Church. — Mel Gibson

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it. — Mel Gibson

The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times. — Mel Gibson

Sometimes you got to a point where it wasn't happening and you had to figure out another way to do it, particularly in terms of making the jaguar do what you wanted. That was not CG, a real guy had to run really fast and not trip. There was a form of restraint on the creature that you can't see. so it was all very safe - but it is real. — Mel Gibson

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky. — Mel Gibson

If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads. — Mel Gibson

One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet. — Mel Gibson

My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much. — Mel Gibson

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. — Mel Gibson

I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation. — Mel Gibson

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. — Mel Gibson

My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life. — Mel Gibson

I've got one of Darwin's books at home and some of that stuff is pretty damn funny. Some of his stuff is true, like that the giraffe has a long neck so it can reach the leaves. But I just don't think you can swallow the whole piece. — Mel Gibson

Nobody makes art for an elite, not if they're a real artist. You try and reach as many people as possible with whatever it is that you make. If a chef is making an omelette, he wants everyone to think that it tastes great because he did it. And if it does, then that's a success because everyone eats it. — Mel Gibson

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. — Mel Gibson

Life Lessons by Mel Gibson

1. Mel Gibson teaches us to stay humble and never forget our roots, no matter how successful we become.
2. He also shows us the importance of forgiveness and the power of redemption.
3. Finally, he demonstrates that it is possible to overcome personal struggles and use them to become a better person.