Quotes By Rupert Everett

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

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 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.

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.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

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

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

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 think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is.

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

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 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.

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

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.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

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.

I've been reduced to drag.

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.

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

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!

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.

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