Rupert Everett Quotes - Page 2

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.

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'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.

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's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

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

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.

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.

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

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!

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

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

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

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

I've never been any good with authority.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.