Rupert Everett Quotes

I think marriage is ghastly.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe.

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

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.'

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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