Rupert Everett Quotes

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 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.

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.

I've never been any good with authority.

I've been reduced to drag.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

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.

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

I think marriage is ghastly.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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