Top 40 Richard Gere Quotes

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

I cry every chance I get.

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

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

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

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.

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

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don’t need those techniques.

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

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

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.

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

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

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

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.

I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That’s very rare.

I would say that the West is very young, it’s very corrupt. We’re not very wise. And I think we’re hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

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

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.

Everyone responds to kindness.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I’m less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.