quotes of the week

Over at Moviehole, Mel Gibson speculates on his future as an action hero:

He laughs when asked how much money he still gets offered for a new Lethal Weapon. “Ah, good question. I’m too old and I can’t deal with the action stuff anymore.” That also tends to rule out the much delayed Mad Max 4. “It’s getting to the point where they’ll start calling it Fat Max.”

Gibson is of course busy these days with The Passion. But it seems he's not the only actor embracing Christianity.

“I now love going to church. It's nondenominational, but they preach from the Gospel with sincerity. I've been reading the Old Testament lately. But the Book of John is also a good place to start. I've never felt anything but love from the people at the church I belong to. It doesn't matter to them that I'm on TV. Who cares?”

The TV star in question is, uh, Pamela Anderson. (Gotta wonder if there are any ramifications for her current series, the animated Stripperella.)

And though this one is a couple of months old, here's Ian McKellen describing the perks of being identified with Gandalf:

SciFi: And you know you've made it when you're an action figure.

McKellen: Forget it! I'm on the stamps in New Zealand. I'm on a coin of the realm in New Zealand. The queen on one side, and Elizabeth II on the other.

(Before sending the hatemail, remember: He said it, not me…)

MORE. Jay Nordlinger quotes Ethan Hawke, actor, poet, dink.

“I think that George W. Bush is probably the least prepared person to be president of the United States that's been elected in a long time, if not ever. Clinton is a self-made man. He actually came to it with a desire to do good. Think about it — we have an ex-coke fiend as a president. And he has a sense of entitlement that I think Bill Clinton never had. […] Martin Luther King suffered from infidelity and so did John F. Kennedy. And you're much more likely to find great leadership coming from a man who likes to have sex with a lot of women than one who is monogamous.”

Hmmm. Maybe helps explain why Hawke is the ex Mr. Uma Thurman.