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 EverettA lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.
Rupert EverettI loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.
Rupert EverettI'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 EverettI dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.
Rupert EverettIf 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 EverettI 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 EverettBeing 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 EverettMy 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 EverettThe 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.
Rupert EverettTo 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 EverettThese awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.
Rupert EverettWhy 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 EverettI 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 EverettHonestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.
Rupert EverettMaybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!
Rupert EverettI'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.
Rupert EverettI'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 EverettIf 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.
Rupert EverettI have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
Rupert EverettWhat's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.
Rupert EverettI'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.
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