English - Actor | May 29, 1959 -
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!
Rupert Everett
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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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I've never been any good with authority.
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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.'
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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.
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I've been reduced to drag.
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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.
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I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.
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My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.
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I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.
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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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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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