Quotes By Rupert Everett

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.

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

I think marriage is ghastly.

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

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.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

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.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

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.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

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.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe.

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.

I've never been any good with authority.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

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.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.