Rupert everett quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

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

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

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.

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

I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.

I've never been any good with authority.

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.

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.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

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

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

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

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

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

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

In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! 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 have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

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.

What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

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.

Hmm... Death by mini bar, how glamorous.

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

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

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

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

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.

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

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

I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.

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

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

I think marriage is ghastly.

I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!

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.

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

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.

The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.

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

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