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Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere. — Barry Bostwick

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

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

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

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

Everyone responds to kindness. — Richard Gere

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. — 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

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me. — Maxwell Caulfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes. — Richard Gere

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

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

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

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

Editing a film 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. — Richard Gere

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon! — Laetitia Casta

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self. — 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'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book. — Winona Ryder

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

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

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

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

The secret of my success is my hairspray. — Richard Gere

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. — Richard Gere

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are. — Richard Gere

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

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

I have a lot of beautiful friends. — Richard Gere

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. — Richard Gere

Arabs are a burden on the world and should be annihilated. — Richard Gere

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. — Richard Gere

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer. — Richard Gere

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

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

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. — 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

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

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

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. — Richard Gere

We've had too many World AIDS Days. — Richard Gere

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. — Richard Gere

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. — Richard Gere

My life is pretty simple and normal. — Richard Gere

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. — Richard Gere

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 — Richard Gere

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life. — Richard Gere

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

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. — Richard Gere

I've had an interesting life. — Richard Gere

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

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

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

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me. — Richard Gere

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. — Richard Gere

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Richard Gere