Richard Gere

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts... and therefore…

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the…

— Richard Gere

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

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

— 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…

— 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

When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama]…

— Richard Gere

I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play.…

— Richard Gere

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've…

— Richard Gere

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was…

— Richard Gere

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were,…

— Richard Gere

I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It…

— Richard Gere

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a…

— Richard Gere

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are…

— 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.…

— Richard Gere

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…

— Richard Gere

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But…

— 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…

— Richard Gere

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…

— Richard Gere

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was…

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me…

— 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

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…

— 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

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…

— Richard Gere

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…

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the…

— 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

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…

— 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…

— Richard Gere

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

— 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…

— 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

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

— Richard Gere

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore;…

— Richard Gere

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I…

— Richard Gere