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
I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.
I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.
In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.
I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.
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.
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.
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.
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.
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.
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.
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.