Mel Gibson Quotes

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

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
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  • Birth: January 3, 1956

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I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

John Patrick Shanley

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Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

Tony Hale

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'The Look of Silence' was an unforgettable, chilling documentary.

Liz Tuccillo

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When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

Joyce Carol Oates

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean de la Bruyere

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When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Doris Lessing

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I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Courteney Cox

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'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Bruce Springsteen

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Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

Philip Emeagwali

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Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Serj Tankian

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I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

Lisa Cholodenko

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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Lewis Carroll

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