Richard Gere Quotes - Page 5

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

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

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

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

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

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

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.

[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.

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.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

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

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.

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 have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.

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

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.

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.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

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.