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Mel Gibson
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If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads.
— On his involvement in Braveheart (1995) as actor, director and producer. Cited in The Dispatch (Moline, Illinois; December 24, 2006), p.63.
Mel Gibson
American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (born 1956)
- Fame71.6
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#190
Source-basedStable
- Fame71.6
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#190
- United States rank#249
- Directors rank#70
- Wikipedia389.2K
Born 1956 · age 70United States
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He rode the Mad Max wasteland to stardom, then pivoted behind the camera to win Oscars for Braveheart. A decade later, The Passion of the Christ became one of the highest-grossing films ever made and ignited a cultural firestorm.
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Born in Peekskill, New York, on January 3, 1956, Gibson moved to Sydney at 12 and trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he played Romeo opposite Judy Davis. Max Rockatansky in Mad Max and Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon made him an action fixture through the 1980s and '90s; Peter Weir's Gallipoli earned him a Best Actor award in Australia. In 1995 he produced, directed, and starred in Braveheart, taking home the Golden Globe and two Oscars—Best Director and Best Picture. The Passion of the Christ followed in 2004, a biblical epic that became a box-office juggernaut and a light…
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Mel Gibson
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The precursors to a civilization that’s going under are the same, time and time again. … What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?
— 25 September 2006 article
Mel Gibson
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I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic.
— "Gibson: I'm not anti-Semitic", Tom Tugend, Jerusalem Post, February 9, 2004
Mel Gibson
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I don't feel like I want to get in front of a camera any more. I like getting, you know, just being a slob behind a camera and watching other people look good.
— Primetime interview with Diane Sawyer, February 2004.
Mel Gibson
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[On the number of victims in the Holocaust] I mean when the war was over they said it was 12 million. Then it was six. Now it’s four.
— Previously unpublished extracts from a Reader's Digest interview with Peggy Noonan (c. 2004) reproduced in "Mel Gibson: Holocaust a
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- Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia
- Academy Award for Best Director
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- Golden Globe Award for Best Director
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