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English actor and novelist, Birth: 29-5-1959 Rupert Everett Quotes
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I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.
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It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
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To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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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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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.
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From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.
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There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.
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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.
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Quote Topics by Rupert Everett: Thinking Gay Character Men People World Careers Actors Age Years Lying Way War Queens Sex Political Giving Parent Kids Authority Funny Christian Flying Dad India Holiday White Fun Cried Sexy
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I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.
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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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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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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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You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.
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I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.
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I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
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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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What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.
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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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My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.
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You cannot be politically correct in a war.
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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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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!
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Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!
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Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.
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A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.
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I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.
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Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.
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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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These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.
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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.
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I think marriage is ghastly.
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I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.
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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.
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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.
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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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I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.
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I find there aren't that many options as an actor.
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Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.
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Hmm... Death by mini bar, how glamorous.
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I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.
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I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.
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I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.
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I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.
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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'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.
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Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.
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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 think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.
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Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.
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