Rupert Everett Quotes

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Rupert Everett

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 29, 1959

I think marriage is ghastly.

Rupert Everett

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!

Rupert Everett

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.

Rupert Everett

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.

Rupert Everett

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.

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

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

Rupert Everett

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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Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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!

Rupert Everett

I've never been any good with authority.

Rupert Everett

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.

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. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

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I've been reduced to drag.

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

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett