In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind. Richard Gere More Quotes by Richard Gere More Quotes From Richard Gere 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 sacrifice wife sleep I have to admit, a manicured look works for me. Richard Gere looks Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere. Richard Gere animal night kids 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. Richard Gere acting listening world [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 I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling. Richard Gere needy different acting When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things. Richard Gere actors safe feels 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. Richard Gere voting party real Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know. Richard Gere actors careers knows 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 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 brutal pieces actors (Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director. Richard Gere sometimes directors firsts America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people. Richard Gere attention america people 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 jealous attitude people Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene. Richard Gere new-york play doors People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time. Richard Gere who-i-am sleep talking 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 technique acting use If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self. Richard Gere land self people Billions of people don't practice a religion at all. Richard Gere billions practice people 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 political intellectual decision
