Richard Gere Quotes

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

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

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

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

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

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

I cry every chance I get.

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

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

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

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

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

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

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.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

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.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.