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Rupert Everett is an English actor, writer, and singer, renowned for his roles in films such as "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "An Ideal Husband." His career spans stage, film, and television, earning him critical acclaim and a distinctive presence in the entertainment industry. He has also been recognized for his openly gay identity and contributions to LGBTQ+ representation. Here are 48 of his quotes:

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

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

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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.

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Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

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

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

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I think marriage is ghastly.

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

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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.

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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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I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

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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.

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I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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