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.

Next quotes

• Rupert Everett:

  I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

• Rupert Everett:

  My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

• Rupert Everett:

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

• Rupert Everett:

  Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you

• Rupert Everett:

  The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limi

• Rupert Everett:

  To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump in

• Rupert Everett:

  You cannot be politically correct in a war.

• Rupert Everett:

  Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to com

• Rupert Everett:

  Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

• Rupert Everett:

  I'm not a great poetry fan.