Mel Gibson
Overview
Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born 3 January 1956) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill
Peekskill, New York
Peekskill is a city in Westchester County, New York. It is situated on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across from Jones Point.This community was known to be an early American industrial center, primarily for its iron plow and stove products...

, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art
National Institute of Dramatic Art
The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national training institute for students of theatre, film, and television, based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. It is supported by the federal Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. NIDA is located adjacent...

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After appearing in the Mad Max
Mad Max
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and revised by Miller and Byron Kennedy over the original script by James McCausland. The film stars Mel Gibson, who was unknown at the time. Its narrative based around the traditional western genre, Mad Max tells a story...

and Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film and the first in a series of films, all directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of LAPD detectives, and Gary Busey as their primary adversary...

series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart
Braveheart
Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. The film was written for the screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace...

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Quotations

My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.

Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously", page 300.

I'm not Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting that the people who say it's anti-Semitic say that before they saw the film, and they said the same thing after they saw the film.

"Gibson: I'm not anti-Semitic", Tom Tugend, Jerusalem Post, February 9, 2004

They take it up the ass. [pointing at his posterior] This is only for taking a shit.

Discussing homosexuals in an interview with El Pais magazine, December 1991

I became an actor despite that. But with this look, who's going to think I'm gay? It would be hard to take me for someone like that. Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?

Discussing the perception that many actors are gay in an interview with El Pais magazine, December 1991

Hey, I'm for love, not war. How about we have a beer?

An intoxicated Gibson to the infuriated driver he had just rear ended in Toronto|Toronto. In 1984 he pleaded guilty to drunk driving and was fined $300 and banned from driving in Canada for 3 months. While in court, he apologized to the people of Toronto and thanked the police. Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously," page 175.

The L.A. Times, it's an Anti-Christianity|anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.

The New Yorker|The New Yorker September 15 2003.

 
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