My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.

Frances McDormand

White Were Trash

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

Adam Jones

Use Us Tom

I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

Alastair Reynolds

Science William Will

I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.

Alex Lifeson

You Years Year

I went to Kalamazoo to get my first Gibsons back in '76.

Alex Lifeson

Zoo T Sons

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

Ang Lee

T Sort Son

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

B. B. King

Wit Which Used

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

Bill Mumy

Good Yin Years

I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

Brad Feld

Science Business Writers

I've got a EC3-35 Gibson, which is pretty cherished. I've got a vintage Reichenbacker 330 in fireglow, which is the other one I look after and don't let the kids touch.

Bradley Wiggins

Age Which Vintage

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Catherine McCormack

Car Tire T

I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

Corey Taylor

Thing Thin T

I recall very early Mel Gibson films where he's kind of cheeky. I wanted to embody those qualities, definitely.

Dacre Montgomery

Where Wanted Want

My first real break was meeting my manager, Julie Gibson. She's the one that introduced me to Ford and Innovative and got me started.

Daniella Alonso

Art Age Tin

Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.

David Cone

Men Us Table

Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.

David Jolly

Power Great Term

Well I've been playing an SG forever, and I've got some other vintage Gibsons I like to use in the studio.

Derek Trucks

Age Yin Well

J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist.

Duncan Jones

Cool Art Writers

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

Ernest Cline

Technology You Wrote

I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.

Ernest Cline

Science Home Computers

My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.

Frances McDormand

White Were Trash

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

Garry Marshall

I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.

Gene Wilder

Mel Gibson taught me to run properly. You've got to pump your arms and move your feet faster, or you just don't look cool.

Glen Powell

I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work with this guy. I've worked with Steven Seagal. He's out of his mind. I mean, I've worked with Spike Lee for four films. I've worked with some people that you can say are right there teetering between genius and madness.

Isaiah Washington

Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

J. B. Smoove

I was not guaranteed a starting place at Everton. I had a lot of injuries. Darron Gibson and Marouane Fellaini were in form, so it was a push for me to get in that side.

Jack Rodwell

Being in the same sentence as Bob Gibson, that's incredible.

Jake Arrieta

I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.

James Wan

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

Jason Newsted

There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.

Jeffrey Kluger

My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.

Jerry Garcia

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

Jerry Reed

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

Jim Caviezel

Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.

Jim Caviezel

Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.

Jim Caviezel

Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson were not giants, they were giants in the ring, they drew money, people loved them and that's what you find in the Young Bucks.

Jim Ross

There was a rumour that I was buying Gibson. It circulated around the Internet... And I just go, 'How well off do you think I am?' I play blues-rock for a living. It's like a vow of poverty.

Joe Bonamassa

With a proven track record as a reliable, low cost producer able to meet the needs of our customers with a diversity of operations, coal qualities and transportation options, we believe we can continue our record-setting performance in the future, as the Gibson South and White Oak mines reached their full potential.

Joe Craft

I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

John Malkovich

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

John Oates

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

Johnny Rivers

In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.

Johnny Rivers

I love that Mel Gibson.

Jon Gruden

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

Juan Marichal

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

Juliana Hatfield

Debbie Gibson and dog food. I've always dreamed of this.

Julie Brown

I was fortunate to have people like Althea Gibson come and speak to me, also Leslie Allen and Arthur Ashe. So I feel obligated, part of my duty, to continue to pass on the knowledge I've learned to youngsters and adults alike.

Katrina Adams

We make sure that we continue to educate our youth on who Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe were.

Katrina Adams

A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.

Kelly Rowan

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

Kim Shattuck