Rupert Everett Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not a great poetry fan.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think marriage is ghastly.

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

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 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.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

I've never been any good with authority.

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.

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!

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

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.