Richard Gere Quotes

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Richard Gere

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 31, 1949

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

Richard Gere

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

Richard Gere

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

Richard Gere

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

Richard Gere

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Richard Gere

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

Richard Gere

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

Richard Gere

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Richard Gere

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Richard Gere

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Richard Gere

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

Richard Gere

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.

Richard Gere

I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.

Richard Gere

I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

Richard Gere

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

Richard Gere

I have a lot of beautiful friends.

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I've had an interesting life.

Richard Gere

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

Richard Gere

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

Richard Gere

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Richard Gere