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Richard Gere, born on August 31, 1949, is an internationally renowned American actor. Known for his exceptional performances in films, particularly in romantic and dramatic roles, Gere reached the pinnacle of his career in the 1980s and 1990s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in 'American Beauty' and 'Chicago', and has been nominated for numerous other awards.

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Famous Richard Gere Quotes

“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.”

Way Should Ends Use Results Acting Trouble Technique End Results Fooling Yourself

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“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.”

Whole Character Personality Available

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“Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.”

Sometimes Play Feelings Happens Process Hours Emotion Four Skills Approach Picks Filled Things Happen Trumpets

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“There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.”

Way Certain Awful Angle It Is What It Is

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“Any political situation has many sides... We intellectualize the whole situation any way... We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.”

Way Whole Political Sides Decision Situation Intellectual Backgrounds

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“I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.”

People Way I Can Character Hands Guy Photograph Belts Buckles

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“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.”

Way Want Writing Quality Paid Down And Scripts Greedy Good Writers

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“I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.”

I Can Whole Actors Pieces Brutal Detached

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“[on editing of the films] There 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.”

Mind Film Directors Editing Appreciated Involvement

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“I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.”

People Film Attitude Havens Jealous

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

Actors Father Figures Directors Sibling Movie Sets Father Figure

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“Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.”

Sometimes Water Alive Deeper Keep Going Territory Sharks Staying Alive

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“There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.”

Reason Lying Bad Things Compassionate Benign Telling Lies

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“It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!”

Want Believe Humans Children President Human Nature Our Children Our Family

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“I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I'd play anything like that role off screen.”

People Said Play Character Reality Accepting Roles Assuming Screens Ridiculous Flattering Gigolo

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“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.”

People Thinking Littles Bits Quality Little Bit Expectations Come Up Lists Honestly

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“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.”

People Ifs States Done Nations United United States Iraq March United Nations

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“We've had too many World AIDS Days.”

World Aids World Aids Day Aids Day

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“Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.”

People Stills Country President Millions Democracy

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“When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.”

Motivation Morning Get Up

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“Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.”

People Thinking Way Should Wells Important Different Whole Culture Simple Animal Levels Planets Diversity Survival Species Saved Ecology Ecological Different Cultures

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“I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.”

Practice Essentials

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“I've had an interesting life.”

Interesting Interesting Life

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“My life is pretty simple and normal.”

Life Is Simple Normal

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“I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.”

Knows Stills Whole Opportunity

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“People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.”

People Made Ideas Different Different Ideas

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“I have a lot of beautiful friends.”

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“I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.”

People Thinking Want Entertainment Relate

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“There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.”

Problem Seems Planets

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“I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.”

Thinking Littles Christian Christ Church Religious Built Institutions

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“I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.”

Thinking Light Young Wise Filled West Ancient Hopeful Very Wise

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

Mind Heart Goal Heart And Mind Expanding

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“I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.”

Looks Remember Father Rooms Cutting Magazines Neighborhood Hiding Playboy Playboy Magazine

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“I have to admit, a manicured look works for me.”

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“It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.”

Important Partners

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“I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.”

Made Sleep Rooms Wife Sacrifice Position Like You Fit Mouths My Wife Devices Throat Passages Locks Sleeping In

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“Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.”

People Knows Stones Dedicated Sharon

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“Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.”

Thinking Two Kids Night Animal Julia Crumbs

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“I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."”

Way Said Together Remember Wise Impossible Treated Laughed Bob Complaints Documentaries Dylan Scorsese

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“If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind

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“As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.”

“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”

Mind Looks Soul Self Hate Path Hatred Your Soul

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“People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.”

People Animal Rights Mass Campaigns Vegetarian Vegan Animal Rights Factories Offended Vegetarian Health Vegan Health

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“His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'”

Thinking Said Poor Quality Focus Photography Photographer Photograph Clarity Holiness Crap Lama Dalai Poor Quality

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“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.”

Ifs Mean Today Jesus Christ My Own Five Thousand Jesus Christ Dollars Chicago Horns

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“I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.”

Thinking Littles Long Has Beens Made Life Is Grows Mistake Growing Up Keys Long Time Plenty Insecurity Shyness Introspective Time To Grow Up

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“In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. It's all of our jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. If you can see (the terrorists) as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine, and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mind Jobs Suffering Courses Compassion Situation Creating Sick Medicine Karma Terrorist Horrible Relative Negativity Love And Compassion Future Life

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“America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.”

People America Interest Attention Paid Absurd

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“If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.”

Ifs Giving Compassion Sick Medicine Terrorist Relative Love And Compassion

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“Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.”

Beautiful Beautiful Things

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About the Author

Born: August 31, 1949
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 122

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