Richard Gere
Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gereis 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. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in several hit films, including An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, Runaway Bride, Arbitrage and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 August 1949
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
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.
(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.
Shooting in New York can be a problem. I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.
Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.
Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
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.
If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.
People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time.