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Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

Richard Gere

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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
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Happiness
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When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
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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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I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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