Gere Quotes

(On turning down the chance to play Richard Gere`s character in the Harvey Weinstein-produced film Chicago) "I thought I was too young for the role. You have some 34-year-old guy up against Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger and it becomes a different movie. At one point, Harvey was telling me they were thinking of Kevin Spacey, and I told him, `That`s exactly right. You should hire him.` Then I was in New York when the movie opened and the queue was around the block. I sat down and thought that I had probably made the biggest mistake. But I still honestly think that it was the right thing to do. I still think I was too young for that part."

(on Richard Gere) He`s got a pin-up image, which he hates. The only trouble is this: whenever they ask him to take his trousers off, he does.

I`m not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

To Richard Gere: As you`re a Buddhist, do you like Tibet or do you think gambling`s wrong?

On Terrence Malick, whom he admires: It`s so strange; I never knew what happened to him. I saw Richard Gere in New Orleans one time, and I said, "What ever happened to Terry Malick?" And he said, "Everybody asks me that." He said, "I have no idea." But later on I met Terry. And he just - he just decided that he didn`t want to live that life. Or so he told me. He just didn`t want to live the life. It wasn`t that he didn`t like the films. It`s just, if you could do it without living in Hollywood ...