Quotes By 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!

I think marriage is ghastly.

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

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

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

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

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

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm not a great poetry fan.

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.

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

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

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.

I've never been any good with authority.

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.