Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm p... -Mel Gibson

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

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A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere....
Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are...
I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimida...
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 conver...
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through....
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....
I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an i...
Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time...

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...