Richard Gere famous 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.
-- Richard Gere

#Heart #Reality #Mind

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].
-- Richard Gere

#Being Yourself #Communication #Levels

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.
-- Richard Gere

#Kindness #Responsibility #Animal

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

#Thinking #Mirrors #Way

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

#Emotional #Thinking #Bravery

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.
-- Richard Gere

#Cutting #Hands #Feet

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

#Animal #Rights #People

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

#Girlfriend #Good Friend #My Girlfriend

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.
-- Richard Gere

#Jesus #Mean #Dollars

If you can see them [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.
-- Richard Gere

#Compassion #Medicine #Sick

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

#Karma #Strong #Soulmate

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

#Sacrifice #Suffering #Energy

Everyone responds to kindness.
-- Richard Gere

#Kindness #Compassion #Kind

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

#Stuff

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

#Cute Relationship #Dating #Honest

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

#Safe #Way #Comedy

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

#Inspiration #Reality #Practice

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

#Secret #Hairspray #Secret Of My Success

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

#Sister #Brother #Saving

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

People are always talking about freedom.  Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around.  Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom.  Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day.  I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.  I don't know who I am most of the time.
-- Richard Gere

#Sleep #Talking #Who I Am

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

#Funny #Doors #Faces

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

#Careers #Actors

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

#Acting #Different #Needy

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

#Thinking #Snakes #Who I Am

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

#Years #Guy #Shapes

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

#Buddhism #Impact #Enormous

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.
-- Richard Gere

#Jobs #Nice #Father

When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama] generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.
-- Richard Gere

#Compassion #Light #Self

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.
-- Richard Gere

#New York #Texture

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.
-- Richard Gere

#Real #Party #Voting

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.
-- Richard Gere

#Buddhist #Real #Views

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

#Mother #Love Is #Thinking

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

#Buddhist #Men #Encounters

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

#Dreamer

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

#Real #Light #Film

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

#Gratitude #Appreciation #Kindness

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

#Practice #People #Billions

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

#Dreamer

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

#Thinking #Self #Examination

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

#Insecure #Self #Self Conscious

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

#Hurt #Honest #Lama

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.
-- Richard Gere

#Meditation #Quality #Mindfulness

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

#World #Holiness #Quantum

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

#Ideas #People #Doe

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

#Real #Bulls #World

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

#Character #Journey #Actors

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

#Years #Names #Rumor

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

#Giving #Giving Back #Wells

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

#Actors #Safe #Feels

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

#Acting #Way #Able

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.
-- Richard Gere

#Views #Athletic #Chinese

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

#Buddhist #Way #Serious

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

#Mean #Thinking #Actors

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.
-- Richard Gere

#Listening #Acting #World

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

#Hate #Self #Hatred

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'
-- Richard Gere

#Photography #Thinking #Focus

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.
-- Richard Gere

#Growing Up #Mistake #Thinking

In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. It's all of our jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. 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.
-- Richard Gere

#Karma #Jobs #Thinking

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

#America #People #Attention

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

#Beautiful #Beautiful Things

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

#Leader #Mind #Emotion

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

#Order #Mind #Able

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

#Self #Land #People

I cry every chance I get.
-- Richard Gere

#Tears #Chance #Cry

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

#Regret #Healing #Everything Happens For A Reason

The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.
-- Richard Gere

#Marriage #Ideas #Taught

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

#Smart #Who I Am #Mind