Quote

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

Richard Gere

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Gere
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 31
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Photographer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Richard Tiffany Gere
Life
Learn
Insecurity
Littles
Plenty
Little
Mistakes
Made
Keys
Long
Took
Time
Grow
Stemmed
Think
Mistake
Introspective
Thinking
Grows
Shyness

More quotes by Richard Gere

Image
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
Richard Gere
Image
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.
Richard Gere
Image
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.
Richard Gere
Image
I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.
Richard Gere
Image
When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.
Richard Gere
Image
People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.
Richard Gere
Image
There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.
Richard Gere
Image
Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.
Richard Gere
Image
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.
Richard Gere
Image
We've had too many World AIDS Days.
Richard Gere
Image
Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.
Richard Gere
Image
One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.
Richard Gere
Image
I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
Richard Gere
Image
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
Image
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
Richard Gere
Image
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.
Richard Gere
Image
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
Image
I have a lot of beautiful friends.
Richard Gere
Image
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
Image
It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.
Richard Gere