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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.

Richard Gere

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Richard Gere
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 31
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.
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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.
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Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
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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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I've had an interesting life.
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When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.
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On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.
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I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
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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 think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.
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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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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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Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.
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Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.
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When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
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