Top 50 Rupert Everett Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”

— Rupert Everett

3. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

4. “I don’t think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don’t think I am.”

— Rupert Everett

5. “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

6. “There’s still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.”

— Rupert Everett

7. “The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting – you have to remember a lot.”

— Rupert Everett

8. “I smell of sweat. I don’t like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.”

— Rupert Everett

9. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

10. “I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.”

— Rupert Everett

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

— Rupert Everett

12. “I’ve never been any good with authority.”

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13. “What’s happened to humour? We’re becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.”

— Rupert Everett

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

17. “I can’t think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.”

— Rupert Everett

18. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

19. “You cannot be politically correct in a war.”

— Rupert Everett

20. “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

21. “The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.”

— Rupert Everett

22. “I’m not a great poetry fan.”

— Rupert Everett

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

— Rupert Everett

24. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

25. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

26. “There’ll be a black lesbian in the White House before I’m James Bond.”

— Rupert Everett

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

— Rupert Everett

28. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

29. “I find there aren’t that many options as an actor.”

— Rupert Everett

30. “I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows – it’s so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it’s so obviously a sham.”

— Rupert Everett

31. “I think marriage is ghastly.”

— Rupert Everett

32. “Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.”

— Rupert Everett

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

— Rupert Everett

34. “If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt – or foster.”

— Rupert Everett

35. “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

36. “You’re not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.”

— Rupert Everett

37. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

38. “I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.”

— Rupert Everett

39. “Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.”

— Rupert Everett

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

— Rupert Everett

41. “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.”

— Rupert Everett

42. “From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It’s just because I can’t be bothered to be in.”

— Rupert Everett

43. “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.”

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44. “I don’t think kids should have role models. They’re disastrous.”

— Rupert Everett

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

— Rupert Everett

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

— Rupert Everett

47. “Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.”

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48. “I don’t think I’ve ever tried to change anyone. I don’t have the energy.”

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49. “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

50. “I think it’s fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.”

— Rupert Everett

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