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" There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality. "
Rupert Everett
Deal
Homosexuality
Great
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" I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way. "
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" Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days. "
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" 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. "
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" I've never been any good with authority. "
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" You cannot be politically correct in a war. "
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" I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Brave
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" I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything. "
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Adventurous
Everything
" 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. "
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Never
Lucky
" Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. "
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" I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career. "
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Back
Miserable
Out
" 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. "
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Army
Back
" I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am. "
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Am
Think
I Am
" My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. "
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Family
Born
Three
" I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting. "
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Think
Sweat
Smell
" 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. "
Rupert Everett
Tolerance
Gay
You
" I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing. "
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Panic
Thing
You
" 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. "
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World
Blame
Business
" These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. "
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Movement
Middle-Class
Become
" I'm not a great poetry fan. "
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Great
Fan
Poetry
" You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Gay
Age
" I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham. "
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Windows
Belief
" 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. "
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Still
Our
Culture