The best Quotes by Mel Gibson

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.

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

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

Every man dies, not every man really lives.

You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.

It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom.

Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.

The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

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 willin' 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!

I'm too old for this sh-t.

You have the right to remain unconscious. Anything you say ain't gonna be much.

Murtaugh: "God hates me. That's what it is."
Riggs: "Hate him back; it works for me."

I was driving before you were an itch in your daddy's pants!

Riggs: "You don't trust me at all, do you?"
Murtaugh: "Well, I'll tell you what. You make it through tomorrow without killing anybody, especially me, or yourself, then I'll start trusting you."
Riggs: "Fair enough."

Leo Getz: "Those doctors are savages. I mean, where does it say that a gunshot wound requires a rectal exam? With a telescope big enough to see Venus!"
Martin Riggs: "I guess all they saw was Uranus, huh?"

Riggs: "You want me to drive?"
Murtaugh: "No, you're supposed to be suicidal, remember? I'll drive."
Riggs: "Anybody who drives around in this town IS suicidal."

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Pocahontas: "It would've been better if we never met. None of this would've happened."
John Smith: "Pocahontas, look at me. I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you."

Listen with your heart, you will understand.

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

How high will the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind

What I love most about rivers is
You can't step in the same river twice
The water's always changing, always flowing
But people, I guess, can't live like that

You think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so, but still I cannot see if the savage one is me
How can there be so much that you don't know?

You know, hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane.

They say people don't believe in heroes anymore. Well, damn them! You and me, Max, we're gonna give them back their heroes.

I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine! I am a rocker, I am a roller, I am an out-of-controller!

The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you can hack through your ankle in five minutes.

My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell...each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy. Me... Or everyone else.

We who have seen war will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night we will always hear the screams.

Lt. Col. Hal Moore: "I think you oughta get yourself an M-16."
Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley: "Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground."

Lt. Col. Hal Moore: "I'll never forgive myself."
Joe Galloway: "For what, sir?"
Lt. Col. Hal Moore: "That my men died and I didn't."

If they're trying to get us close enough to kill, I rekon we'll be close enough to kill them.

Some had families waiting. For others, their only family would be the men they bled beside. There were no bands, no flags, no Honor Guards to welcome them home. They went to war because their country ordered them to. But in the end, they fought not for their country or their flag, they fought for each other.

Kill all they send and they will stop coming.

I know that God has a plan for me, I just hope it's to help protect orphans, not make any.

You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

Legos are like chocolate... there's always room for some more.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

We think too much and feel too little.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.