Richard Gere Quotes

I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I just live my life.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.