Richard Gere
American actor
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- If we do this work now, we may save 10, 15 million lives. It gives you a lot of focus. I mean, how many things in your life can you do that have that kind of impact?”
- I'm totally shocked. I never win anything. And I didn't even want to do this movie!”
- What's the biggest problem here? ... Food, water?”
- To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on.”
- I cry every chance I get.”
- It'd be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn't seem to be any indications whatsoever that this man (Hussein) poses an immediate threat to anybody.”
- We've had too many World AIDS Days.”
- Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.”
- The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
- My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
- Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
- 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.
- In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
- In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
- If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
- 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.
- I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
- I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
- I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
- I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
- I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
- 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.
- 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.
- Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.