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Richard Gere
American
Actor
About the author
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Past
#Connection
#Karma
#Buddhism
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Character
#Actor
In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Brothers
#Possibility
#Sisters
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.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Hurt
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Reality
#Meditation
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#First
#Men
#Buddhist
The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Love
#Mother
#Symbol
#Compassion
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#World
#Peace
#Holiness
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Film
#Nothing
#Light
#Project
Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Buddhism
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Love
#Kindness
#Appreciation
#Compassion
When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Work
#Actor
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Acting
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Being
#Mind
#Order
#Stability
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Success
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.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Work
#Value
#Meaning
All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Sacrifice
#Suffering
#Energy
Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Actors
#Careers
Everyone responds to kindness.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Kindness
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.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Emotions
#Mind
#Control
#Leader
I cry every chance I get.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Chance
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.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Hope
#Will
#Thought
#President
#Party
#Voting
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Relationships
I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Skin
#Bravery
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#People
#Practice
#Religion
I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Acting
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.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Life
#Mind
I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
Richard Gere,
American
Actor
#Actors