Rupert Everett Quotes
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I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.
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The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.
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There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.
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A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.
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Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.
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I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.
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I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.
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I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.
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The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.
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I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.
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I think marriage is ghastly.
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Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!
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I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.
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I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.
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You cannot be politically correct in a war.
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Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.
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Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
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To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.
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Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.
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I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
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Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.
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My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.
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I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.
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It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
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From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.
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We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
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I'm not a great poetry fan.
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Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.
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I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.
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I've never been any good with authority.
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