Rupert Everett Quotes

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• What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.
• 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…
• The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also…
• 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.…
• I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.
• Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.
• Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!
• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• You cannot be politically correct in a war.
• I'm not a great poetry fan.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
• 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…

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