Quotes By Rupert Everett

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

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 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 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.

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

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

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

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

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.

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

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.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

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.