Richard Gere Quotes

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

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

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

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

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

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

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

You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.

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.

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

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

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

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

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.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

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.

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

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.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

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.

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

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.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

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.

I cry every chance I get.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

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.