"I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried." — 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.

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.

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.

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

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

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

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.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

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I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.