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Rupert Everett

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Details about Rupert Everett's life are scarce, but their observations have traveled far and wide. The range of their thinking — from Age to War — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. 12 of Rupert Everett's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Age, War, Success, Poetry, and Marriage. Among their most shared lines: "You cannot be politically correct in a war."

“You cannot be politically correct in a war.”

— Rupert Everett

War

All Quotes by Rupert Everett

“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.”

— Rupert Everett

Car

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

— Rupert Everett

Age

“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.”

— Rupert Everett

Age

“It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.”

— Rupert Everett

Amazing

“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!”

— Rupert Everett

War

“I think marriage is ghastly.”

— Rupert Everett

Marriage

“I'm not a great poetry fan.”

— Rupert Everett

Poetry

“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.”

— Rupert Everett

Failure

“You cannot be politically correct in a war.”

— Rupert Everett

War

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

— Rupert Everett

Age