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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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Philadelphia
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Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.
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I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.
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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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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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We've had too many World AIDS Days.
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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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I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.
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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.
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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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Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.
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Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.
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(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.
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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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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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