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
Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.
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.
Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.
It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
I've had an interesting life.
My life is pretty simple and normal.
I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.