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

Richard Gere

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Richard Gere
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 31
Actor
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Film Director
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Human Rights Activist
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Stage Actor
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Philadelphia
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Richard Tiffany Gere
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
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People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've had an interesting life.
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When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.
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Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.
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Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
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Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.
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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.
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