Richard Gere Net Worth

Richard Gere's Quotes

• I don't want to be a personality.
• When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His Holiness [The Dalai Lama] generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.
• [on George W. Bush] We have a President right now who lies constantly and gets away with it, apparently.
• [on agent Ed Limato]: He was the bridge between old-time Hollywood and Hollywood present. Ed was a master at orchestrating all of the feelings correctly. He had a rare ability to read a script and see what could be.
• Pretty Woman (1990) is something I never would have done. Neither is An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). I had no interest in these scripts whatsoever. It was the same person knocking my door down on both of them, Jeffrey Katzenberg, first at Paramount, then at Disney, who was one of my first friends out here and still is. At the point of Pretty Woman (1990), I had been kind of out of things for a while. I consciously [had] just said, "Going off to do other things" and I fucked up my career to the point where [people weren't saying], "Well, let's get Gere to do that". I had to crawl a little bit to get scripts. Doing Internal Affairs (1990), for instance, was a very difficult decision for me to make because, potentially, that could have been such a piece of shit. It turns out to be one of my favorite movies and best experiences, too.

Interesting Facts about Richard Gere

1. Attended the University of Massachusetts. Dropped out to pursue acting.
2. Is the second of five children born to Doris Anna (Tiffany) and Homer George Gere.
3. In 1999 was named "People" Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.
4. Graduated from North Syracuse Central High School in 1967.
5. Was a member of his high school's student council, gymnastics team, lacrosse team and ski team.
6. Received a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he majored in philosophy; he dropped out in 1969 to pursue acting.
7. Was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1977" in "John Willis' Screen World", Vol. 29.
8. A Buddhist for over a decade, he was banned from the Oscars once after making anti-China comments on the air at the 1993 ceremony.
9. Cindy Crawford and he were married 12 December 1991 by Rev. Wes McPherson at the Little Church of the West, Las Vegas., NV.
10. He appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care."
11. In 1991 was chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world.
12. An accomplished pianist and music writer; in fact, he composed and performed the piano solo featured in Pretty Woman (1990).
13. Became a father for the first time at age 50 when his girlfriend [later wife] Carey Lowell gave birth to their son Homer James Jigme Gere on February 6, 2000.
14. When the Chinese government invited him to one of its film festivals, he agreed to go with two conditions: that he was allowed to bring his own interpreter and that he would stay in Taipei, Taiwan, during his visit. The government agreed and Gere went to the festival.
15. Named his son: Homer James Jigme. "Jigme" means "fearless" in Tibetan.
16. Turned down the lead role in Die Hard (1988) which went to Bruce Willis.
17. Is referenced in the 2001 hit song "Crying at the Discothéque" by Swedish dance group Alcazar.
18. He has English and small/distant amounts of Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, Dutch, Scottish, German, and French ancestry. He has deep roots in the state of Pennsylvania, and is also a Mayflower descendant, with American roots going back to Massachusetts of the 1600s.
19. Trained for five months for the tap-dance scene in Chicago (2002).
20. Some of his earliest photos, known as "head shots" were taken by boyhood friend and struggling photographer Herb Ritts. The people handling Gere were so impressed with the photos that they began hiring Ritts for other assignments, and he is now a top photographer.