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 find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
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.
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
What's the biggest problem here? ... Food, water?
People's reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme, ... They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to love it, but it will never become part of their soul.
I thought it was an interesting ensemble of characters, all of them searching in their own bumbling way, like we all do, searching for God. I hadn't seen that movie before.
Maybe if we could find some genuine humor in this and then find a way to work together to change the situation as it is, then it would certainly make me happy.
Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream.
If we do this work now, we may save 10, 15 million lives. It gives you a lot of focus. I mean, how many things in your life can you do that have that kind of impact?
If this crisis hits them to the degree it's expected to, we've lost Asia.
She was totally open in the process of making the movie and generous, all of that stuff, but she made a decision to keep kind of separate from me, as we were in the movie.