HomoQuotable - Rupert Everett

"I think it was fortuitous that he died... He was supposed to be doing 50 concerts in London. It wouldn’t have mattered how good or bad he was. He wouldn’t have managed to do all of them and the press would have destroyed him. He was a freak. He looked like a character from Shrek. He was a black to white minstrel. He was crucified by that court case when he was accused of child molestation -- that killed him. He personified the pain and anxiety of a black man in a slave country.

"We all watched as he changed from black to white. He was living performance art. You cannot divide the music from the person. I think his life -- and death -- is a great lesson. I think we are going to see the end of celebrity as we know it. Show business is not an honest profession. It’s like the last days of Versailles. I do wonder how much more bullshit people can take about celebrities. We’re living in very strange times. We have Michael Jackson, a black man who has gone white, and we have President Barack Obama, who is a half white man gone black. It’s absolutely fascinating to watch." - Faded actor Rupert Everett, speaking to the UK's Daily Mail.