Quotes by Richard Gere

• There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
• In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
• 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.
• Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
• My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
• The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
• 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.
• There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
• Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
• Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
• What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
• When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
• When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
• In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
• The secret of my success is my hairspray.
• 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.
• If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
• All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
• When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
• Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.
• 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.
• I cry every chance I get.
• 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.
• 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.
• Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
• I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
• I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
• 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.
• I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.