Rupert Everett

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

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

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

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

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.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

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.

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.