Rupert Everett quotes - page 2

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. (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. View quote
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I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything. View quote
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My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. View quote
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Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. View quote
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I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career. View quote
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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. (Rupert Everett)
I think marriage is ghastly. View quote
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A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous. View quote
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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. View quote
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I find there aren't that many options as an actor. (Rupert Everett)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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