Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett
Rupert James Hector Everettis an English actor and writer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Countryas an openly gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination. He went on to receive a second BAFTA Award nomination and his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in My Best Friend's Wedding, followed by a second...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 May 1959
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Well, you can't be a Hollywood movie star with one tiny little role in a movie. You have to have a body of work -- successful work, I guess,
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He carries these pictures in his mind of the hideous things he has seen, and he can't get them out of his head. His drug addiction comes from that.
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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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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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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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The weirdest thing about it is it seemed like such a bad opportunity at the beginning, ... Because on the paper it wasn't really a role. It was just a little kind of tragic thing, really.
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I'm not a huge kind of nut banner-waver, ... I took the story, really, because I think it's a good story.
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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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The type of acting or the type of film that I think I could be best in isn't quite written at the moment, ... Not that it's anyone's fault, it's just not there. And you know I'd like to be in modern versions of those films that Claudette Colbert and Cary Grant made -- things like that.
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It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
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I think marriage is ghastly.
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I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.
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I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.