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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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“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.”

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“I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.”

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“People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time.”

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

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“People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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."”

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“In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.”

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“When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.”

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

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

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