Richard Gere Quotes About Character
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There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
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People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.
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I've always said it's 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'd play anything like that role off screen.
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I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.
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In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.
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I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.
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