A biography for Rupert Everetthasn’t been written yet.
“Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.”
“My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.”
“I've been reduced to drag.”
“You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.”
“I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.”
“למה שאלבש מכנסיים ורודים? זה מספיק קשה להיות הומו.”
“אם הייתי צריך לבחור בין להצליח כזמר לבין להצליח כשחקן, אני יודע שהייתי בוחר בשירה.”
“הוליווד היא תעתוע, כוכבי קולנוע הם בובות שמשלמים להן כדי שישתקו.”
“שחקן צריך להיות כמו אדם שעוסק בפיתוח גוף, החיים שלו צריכים להיות שריר שאתה מאמן ומפעיל כל הזמן.”
“A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I find there aren't that many options as an actor.”
“I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.”
“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.”