Quotes from 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 in your world.

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.

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

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

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 tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

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.

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.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

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.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

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.

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

I've had an interesting life.

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

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

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.

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 can't remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It's like, I'll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

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