Richard Gere Quotes:
Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don’t know.
Richard Gere
All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
Richard Gere
Billions of people don’t practice a religion at all.
Richard Gere
I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest – it doesn’t exist.
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
Everyone responds to kindness.
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
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
I don’t think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
Richard Gere
I’m a 50 year-old guy and I’m not in shape like I was when I was 30.
Richard Gere
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
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
Richard Gere
In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
Richard Gere
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
Richard Gere
From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They’re a sense of play. But real life is the same. We’re just not aware of it.
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
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.
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
I’m younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.
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