201 Quotes by Richard Gere

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.

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

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.

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

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

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.

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.

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

When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama] generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.