201 Quotes by Richard Gere

It’s rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don’t want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.

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.

People don’t understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

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.

There’s really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

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.

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn’t working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you’re in trouble and things aren’t flowing the way they should. It’s a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.

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.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It’s just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.