A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
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.
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.
I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.
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.
I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre. So I think we almost had to come up with something utterly different like this.
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.
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.
If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
Man Without a Face was a good stepping-off point, but it wasn't without its own set of difficulties. The main ingredient for me as a director on that film was preparation, and that's what I carried over to this one.
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.
The audience will have to focus on the visuals... But they had silent films before talkies arrived, and people went to see them.
The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
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.
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 has an estimated fortune of $850 million, according to the 'Los Angeles Business Journal'. The size of his fortune makes him the 47th richest person in the Los Angeles area and one of the wealthiest actors in the world.
Mel's family line goes back several generations in Australia, but his ancestors originally came from Ireland and Scotland.
Mel owns a summer home in Branford, Connecticut, USA.
Some of Mel's favourite films include, The Big Country (1958), Double Indemnity (1944), and Spartacus (1960).
In 1985, Mel was People Magazine's first ever "Sexiest Man Alive."
Mel almost turned down the role of "William Wallace" in Braveheart (1995), because he thought he was too old for the role.
Mel was born with a rare condition where he has a "horseshoe" kidney, meaning that both of his kidneys are fused into one.
Mel took up acting only because his sister submitted an application behind his back. The night before an audition, he got into a fight, and his face was badly beaten, an accident that won him the role.
Mel's father, Hutton Gibson, moved the family from upstate New York to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1968 after winning as a contestant on Jeopardy.
Mel studied Acting at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art), and at the University of New South Wales, NSW, Sydney, Australia.
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