Rupert Everett

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

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!

I'm not a great poetry fan.

I think marriage is ghastly.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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