Richard Gere Quotes

I cry every chance I get.

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

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

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.

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.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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