“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.”

—  Mel Gibson

Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously", page 300.

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