Quotes by Rupert Everett

About Rupert Everett:

Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor and writer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as an openly gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s. He has since appeared in many other films, including My Best Friend's Wedding, An Ideal Husband, The Next Best Thing and the Shrek sequels.
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I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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.

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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...

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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.

Rupert Everett

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

Rupert Everett

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.

Rupert Everett

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

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

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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.

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

Rupert Everett

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

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

Rupert Everett

Author Bio

  • NameRupert Everett
  • DescriptionBritish actor
  • BornMay 29, 1959
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Film Producer; Novelist; Writer