Mel Gibson
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"Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson" is an Americans/American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He is most well known as an action hero, for roles such as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon (film series)/Lethal Weapon buddy cop film/buddy cop film series and Max Rockatansky in the first three post-apocalyptic fiction/post-apocalyptic action films in the Mad Max (franchise)/Mad Max series.

He was born in Peekskill, New York, and moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia/Sydney when he was 12 years old. He studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. During the 1980s, Gibson founded Icon Entertainment, a production company which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called, "an alternative to the studio system." Director Peter Weir cast Gibson as one of the leads in the critically acclaimed World War I drama Gallipoli (1981 film)/Gallipoli (1981), which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute. The film also helped to earn Gibson the reputation of a serious, versatile actor.

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A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Whose God Is It Anyway?

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

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

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.

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

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.