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Richard Gere [1949-0] American

Rank: 101
Actor

Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor and humanitarian activist. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar and a starring role in Days of Heaven.

Happiness, Dating, Health, Peace, Religion

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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.	Peace	101
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.	Dating	102
I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.		103
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.	Health	104
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.	Happiness	105
Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.		106
Everyone responds to kindness.		107
I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.		108
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.		109
I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.		110
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.		111
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.		112
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.		113
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.		114
I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.		115
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.	Religion	116
The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.	Happiness	117
The secret of my success is my hairspray.		118
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.		119
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.		120
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.		121
In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.		122
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.		123
The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.		124
Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.		125
I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.		126
I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.		201
I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.		202
Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.		203
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.		204
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.		205
It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.		206
All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.		207
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.		208
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.		209
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.		210
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.		211
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.		212
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.		213
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.		214
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.		215
In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.		216
I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.		217
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.		218
I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.		219
I have a lot of beautiful friends.		220
I've had an interesting life.		221
My life is pretty simple and normal.		222
I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.		223
I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.		224
I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.		225
I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.		226
Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.		301
I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.		302
When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.		303
I cry every chance I get.		304
From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.		305
People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.		306
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.		307
There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.		308
Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.		309

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