Latest Richard Gere Quotes from Interviews

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• If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

  Richard Gere

  Thinking, Mind, Ifs

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

• I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

  Richard Gere

  Wise, Together, Documentaries

• Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.

  Richard Gere

  People, Stones, Dedicated

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

• Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

  Richard Gere

  Kids, Animal, Night

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldamn, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Sleep, Sacrifice, Wife

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

• It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.

  Richard Gere

  Important, Partners

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

• I have to admit, a manicured look works for me.

  Richard Gere

  Looks

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Father, Cutting, Looks

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

• I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I'd play anything like that role off screen.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Reality, Play

  "The Hoax - Richard Gere interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

  Richard Gere

  Children, Believe, President

  "The Hoax - Richard Gere interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

  Richard Gere

  Lying, Reason, Benign

  "The Hoax - Richard Gere interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.

  Richard Gere

  Attitude, Jealous, People

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

• On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

  Richard Gere

  Father, Sibling, Directors

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Actors, Pieces, Brutal

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

• [on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

  Richard Gere

  Editing, Mind, Directors

  "Richard Gere: Beyond the Limit with the star of the 'Cotton Club'". Interview with Maura Moynihan and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1983.

• I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Hands, People

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Writing, Quality, Want

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Decision, Political, Intellectual

  "Richard Gere: Beyond the Limit with the star of the 'Cotton Club'". Interview with Maura Moynihan and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1983.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Skills, Play, Feelings

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Awful, Way, Angle

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. Published August 28, 2012.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Personality, Whole

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Acting, Technique, Use

  "Richard Gere: Beyond the Limit with the star of the 'Cotton Club'". Interview with Maura Moynihan and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1983.

• People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Reality, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

  Richard Gere

  Thinking, Acting, Technique

  "Richard Gere: Beyond the Limit with the star of the 'Cotton Club'". Interview with Maura Moynihan and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1983.

• 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.

  Richard Gere

  Jobs, Character, Personality

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.