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.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

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.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

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.

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

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

I've had an interesting life.

I have a lot of beautiful friends.

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.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I cry every chance I get.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

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

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

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.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

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

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

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

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

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

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.