201 Quotes by Richard Gere

Editing a film is always a question of time, and the director. I’ve worked with a lot of directors who don’t mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land – you lose your culture, you lose self.

Anything that’s expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it’s not a goal.

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.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don’t know.

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’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.

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

I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let’s just say things would have turned out differently.