Richard Gere Quotes

It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.

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

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

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

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

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

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

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

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

My life is pretty simple and normal.

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.

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

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.

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

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.

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

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Any political situation has many sides... We intellectualize the whole situation any way... We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.

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

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

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

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

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

I have a lot of beautiful friends.

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

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.

It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

I have to admit, a manicured look works for me.

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.

I've had an interesting life.

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

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

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