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" 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

Authority

You

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Gay

Age

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. "

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

" I've been reduced to drag. "

" My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a great poetry fan. "

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

Rupert Everett

Think

I Am

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

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

" Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. "

Rupert Everett

Spreading

Cancer

" 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 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. "

" 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'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. "