W. H. Gibson Quotes

Men and women are not equal.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine.

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them, if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.

I'm not much of a conformist.

There are certain things men will never understand about women. We'll never get it. And you're supposed to be nice to them. Because they can hurt you.

I don't care if I don't act anymore.

I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.

I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

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

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much

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.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

I get pretty dark sometimes, pretty bleak. But that passes.

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.

Women are just different. Their sensibilities are different.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

I hate that word blog It sounds like a large accumulation of snot

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.

I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.

Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.

I have no complaints. I've worked with worse directors in my career.

I'm not real huge on horror films, but there's something really special about this.