Richard Gere Quotes

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Richard Gere

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 31, 1949

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Richard Gere

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

Richard Gere

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

Richard Gere

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

Richard Gere

I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.

Richard Gere

I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.

Richard Gere

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

Richard Gere

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.

Richard Gere

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

Richard Gere

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.

Richard Gere

Everyone responds to kindness.

Richard Gere

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

Richard Gere

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Richard Gere

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

Richard Gere

My life is pretty simple and normal.

Richard Gere

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.

Richard Gere

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

Richard Gere

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

Richard Gere

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

Richard Gere

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

Richard Gere