Mel Gibson Quotes

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.

It was fun being an actor, but by the time college rolled around, I was ready to try some new things. By the time I graduated, I realized I enjoyed having a normal life and I never went back.

I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.

I don't see myself acting for the rest of my life.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

I stopped acting, as I was not curious about it anymore. I was not passionate about acting.

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That made me study other people very much. Then I actually started university and I got quite bored. This is when I found out I wanted to be an actor.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

My manager always brings up this fact that when I was 10 and first met her I said I never want to do movies and TV.

There's a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family's definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career - I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It's quite busy. Very stressful.

I was at Sussex University studying English lit and philosophy, I had two essays due in and three seminars that day, and at the same time I was messaging my manager because I'd just started to put together the pieces of like, 'Wow. I really don't want to be doing any essays anymore. Why don't I just give this music thing a go?'

Scripts didn't exist during my time in Bollywood, or, at least, I was never given one. I don't want to act at all and am happy in my cave.