Mel Gibson Quotes

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

This business is so unstable, and you never really know where you're going to be.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.

Any time you have a dream job of where you want to work, it's so incredible, and I don't think that people realize it could go away.

I'm very aware of how quickly my career could end.

I think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn't go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month.

We got sacked for the first time when we were just 18 and you realise that this whole industry is transient and changeable.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.