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" 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. "

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Rupert Everett

Yourself

War

Limits

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

" 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

Gay

Age

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You cannot be politically correct in a war. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. "

Rupert Everett

Spreading

Cancer

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

" I think marriage is ghastly. "

" 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

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