Rupert Everett Quotes

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I still like to make crank calls.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

I am happy to play the bad man.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

The biggest mistake you can make with a prank show is remove the 'real' element, which is the funniest thing.

I have been tagged mischievous since childhood and was known as a prankster.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

I kind of want to start doing some prank calls.

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

I don't really consider myself to be a comedian. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting around writing jokes or anything. I just like dressing up and pretending to be other people.

So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.