Rupert Everett Quotes

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I'm not.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

I don't believe I've ever met a homosexual.

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.

Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

I'm not against gay people.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

If you don’t like gay marriage, blame the straight people. They are the ones who keep having the gay babies.

Male homosexuality, in particular, seems to possess some quality of being intrinsically subversive when let loose in long-established institutions, especially male dominated ones.

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.