Richard Gere

“I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.”

“In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.”

“When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.”

“I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.”

“When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.”

“People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.”

“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.”

“There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.”

“My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.”

“I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.”

“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.”

“There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.”

“Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.”

“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.”

“I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.”

“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.”

“In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.”

“I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.”

“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.”

“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.”