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

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

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

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.

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

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

Everyone responds to kindness.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

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.

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

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

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

I have a lot of beautiful friends.

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.

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

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

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

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

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

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.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

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.

I've had an interesting life.

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

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

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

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

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

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

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

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

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

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