201 Quotes by Richard Gere

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

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.

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

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

I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it’s a little bit of everything.

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

I’ve had an interesting life.

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