Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett

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Biography

Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination.

"I am mystified by my heterosexual affairs — but then I am mystified by most of my relationships."

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

"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

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

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

"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."

Rupert Everett

"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."

Rupert Everett

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

Rupert Everett

"I think marriage is ghastly."

Rupert Everett

"I'm not a great poetry fan."

Rupert Everett

"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."

Rupert Everett

"You cannot be politically correct in a war."

Rupert Everett

"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!"

Rupert Everett