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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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" 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

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

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

" 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! "

" 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

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

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

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I think marriage is ghastly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Over

Hill

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. "

Rupert Everett

Spreading

Cancer

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

" 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. "

" 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've never been any good with authority. "