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" 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. "

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" 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! "

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

" There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" I think marriage is ghastly. "

" I'm not a great poetry fan. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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" I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never been any good with authority. "

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

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

" I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything. "

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

" I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting. "

" 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. "

" I've been reduced to drag. "

" 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. "

" These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. "