Rupert Everett Quotes

• 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.

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• It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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!

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• I’ve never been any good with authority.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.’

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• I’ve been reduced to drag.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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Rupert Everett (51)

Birth:	29th May, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly gay student at an English public school in the 1930s.

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