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| I'm 57 years old, how much longer can I be a sex symbol? Let's be realistic. Richard Gere The star of 'Pretty Woman', 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and 'American Gigolo' believes he is too old to be called a sex symbol. I think Clifford had a great deal of self-loathing that he was dealing with. He's just like us; we all lie and we all cheat, and even if we don't do it, we think it and we could at any moment. There's nothing that he does in this movie that we haven't done to some degree, and some us do much worse than these sorts of lies. He even convinces himself of the stories he's telling. You can see that when he talking, he's like a bad actor. You don't quite believe him but you know that he believes what he's saying. Richard Gere On playing Clifford Irving, who falsely claimed to have written the official autobiography of Howard Hughes, in the 2007 movie 'The Hoax'. I have always said that it's very 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 would be anything like that off the screen. Richard Gere Referring to his 1980 movie 'American Gigolo' which catapulted him to stardom and made him an instant sex symbol. Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say "No", we still have a president who says "Yes." In a democracy, something's wrong here. Richard Gere We've had too many World AIDS Days. Richard Gere It'd be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn't seem to be any indications whatsoever that this man [Hussein] poses an immediate threat to anybody. Richard Gere 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 To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on. Richard Gere 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. Richard Gere India is a country that I care about deeply. We're talking about a population in India that is close to a billion people. If this crisis hits them to the degree it's expected to, we've lost Asia. Richard Gere On AIDS crisis in India, Feb 2006. I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything. Richard Gere Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream. Richard Gere If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people. Richard Gere 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 My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early twenties. I think like most young men I was not particularly happy. I don't know if I was suicidal, but I was pretty unhappy, and I had questions like, "Why anything?" Richard Gere It completely changed my life the first time I was in the presence of His Holiness. No question about it. Richard Gere On meeting the Dalai Lama.Tantra has become less romantic to me. It seems more familiar. Richard Gere I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave. Richard Gere I know pretty much who I am. It's good for me to be in the world. Richard Gere I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. So I'm certainly not a leader. Richard Gere His Holiness doesn't see himself as Gandhi; he doesn't create dramatic, operatic situations. Richard Gere On the Dalai Lama. |
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Movie/TV title: Pretty Woman (1990)