Top 100 Richard Gere Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.”

— Richard Gere

52. “Everyone responds to kindness.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

54. “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.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

56. “I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest – it doesn’t exist.”

— Richard Gere

57. “I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a “falling in love” moment.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

59. “I’m rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it’s not embraced. That’s stupid. And I don’t work with stupid people.”

— Richard Gere

60. “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.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

62. “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.”

— Richard Gere

63. “I’ve stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.”

— Richard Gere

64. “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.”

— Richard Gere

65. “It’s nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn’t there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

67. “I’ve had an interesting life.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

69. “It’s not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it’s not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.”

— Richard Gere

70. “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.”

— Richard Gere

71. “Movie acting is primarily listening. If you’re really engaged, that’s all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what’s happening in your world.”

— Richard Gere

72. “Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don’t know.”

— Richard Gere

73. “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

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

— Richard Gere

75. “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

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

— Richard Gere

77. “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

78. “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

79. “When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.”

— Richard Gere

80. “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.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

82. “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.”

— Richard Gere

83. “It’s human nature – we want to believe our children, our families, our President!”

— Richard Gere

84. “Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.”

— Richard Gere

85. “In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It’s part of my job.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

87. “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.”

— Richard Gere

88. “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.”

— Richard Gere

89. “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.”

— Richard Gere

90. “I don’t think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.”

— Richard Gere

91. “There’s really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.”

— Richard Gere

92. “I cry every chance I get.”

— Richard Gere

93. “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.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

95. “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.”

— Richard Gere

96. “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.”

— Richard Gere

97. “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

98. “I have a lot of beautiful friends.”

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere

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

— Richard Gere