Mel Gibson Quotes

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

I think I've always acted confident, even at times I haven't been confident.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character.

I'm not one of those people that pretends he doesn't watch himself.

I'm not an actor, I'm not good looking. It's not what I do, and I don't want to be one. Maybe if I watched myself I would then try to be one.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest, they're going to see parts that are humiliating as well as parts that they might feel really great about. Take Lucas Samaras again, who made a lot of self-portraits. He makes one self-portrait where he is looking directly into the camera and looks so intense and cool. He says in an interview, "I wanted to present the best version of myself."

It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like with make-up on' and 'this is what they look like in real life.'

People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.