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" My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be. "
Mel Gibson
Everyone
Concerned
Used
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" I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen. "
Mel Gibson
Know
Look
Work
" 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
Live
Great
You
" Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from. "
Mel Gibson
You
Foundation
Film
" People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way. "
Mel Gibson
Weird
Way
Face
" 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. "
Mel Gibson
Ask
You
Through
" I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day. "
Mel Gibson
Think
Day
Daily
" Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. "
Mel Gibson
Me
Feminists
Them
" I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make. "
Mel Gibson
Choices
You
Will
" I don't care if I don't act anymore. "
Mel Gibson
Care
Act
Anymore
" A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere. "
Mel Gibson
Home
Building
Children
" I'm pretty fit, naturally. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well and I think it has an effect on me. But hey, I'm putting on the insulin tire like everybody else, but that's just a function of getting older. "
Mel Gibson
Getting Older
Me
Try
" 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
Lucky
Happiness
Day
" I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me. "
Mel Gibson
Me
Try
Think
" Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten. "
Mel Gibson
Scripts
Little
Why
" I could easily not act again. It's not a problem. "
Mel Gibson
Could
Problem
Act
" 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
Wise
Tomorrow
Never
" I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here. "
Mel Gibson
Digital
Think
Talking
" Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them. "
Mel Gibson
You
Life
Learn
" Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that you are working in a factory and you're part of the mechanism. If you break down, you'll be replaced. "
Mel Gibson
You
Working
Realize
" I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing. "
Mel Gibson
Experience
Interesting
Smiling
" 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? "
Mel Gibson
Fall
Environment
Think
" I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves. "
Mel Gibson
Make
Way
Things
" I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces. "
Mel Gibson
You
Dying
Die
" Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems. "
Mel Gibson
Problems
Marriage
Everybody
" Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure. "
Mel Gibson
Time
You
Success
" Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing. "
Mel Gibson
Nice
Home
You
" The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic. "
Mel Gibson
Me
Traffic
Direction
" Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do. "
Mel Gibson
Bold
Business
Cool
" I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based. "
Mel Gibson
Right
See
Now
" I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time. "
Mel Gibson
Time
Love
Political