Richard Gere Quotes
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Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.
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When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
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I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
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There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
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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!'
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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.
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When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
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I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
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In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
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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.
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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.
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People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.
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People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.
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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.
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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
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One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.
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In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
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I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.
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When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.
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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.
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Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
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Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
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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.
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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.
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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. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I'd play anything like that role off screen.
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I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.
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When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
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