Quotes By 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.'

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!

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

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

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

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

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

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

I think marriage is ghastly.

I've been reduced to drag.

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

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.

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

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.

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!

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

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

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

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

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'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.