HomoQuotable - Rupert Everett

"For me, being gay was about wanting to do the opposite of the straight world, so I think that's where my problems in this particular area come from. For me, personally, the last thing I would like in the entire world would be to go through cocktailing my sperm with my boyfriend and finding some grim couple in Ohio who are gluten-free and who you pay $75,000 to have your baby. To me it feels absolutely hideous. But that's me, just me. I'm not having a go at gay couples who do. I think if Elton and David want to have babies, that's wonderful. I think we should all do what we want. Isn't there a middle way, where you can just say, 'Not for me, but it doesn't matter'? But no, everything's sort of turned into al-Qaida. I'm sure I'm going to be nail-bombed. David Furnish is probably going to send Patrick Cox with a bomb and blow up the theatre." - Rupert Everett, speaking to the Guardian about his widely-criticized denouncement of gay parenting.

HomoQuotable - Rupert Everett

"[My mother] thinks children need a father and a mother and I agree with her. I can’t think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads. Some people might not agree with that. Fine! That’s just my opinion. I’m not speaking on behalf of the gay community. In fact, I don’t feel like I’m part of any 'community.' The only community I belong to is humanity and we’ve got too many children on the planet, so it’s good not to have more." - British actor Rupert Everett, speaking to the Sunday Times.

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.

HomoQuotable - Rupert Everett

"I'm totally off the States now. The reaction to 9/11 and then George Bush - really, they've got very blobby as a nation. Now they are whiny victims whose language is entirely taken from two TV shows - Friends and Sex And The City - and there's nothing sexy about them any more. And that kind of semi-blindness about the rest of the world, which was attractive when America was exciting, is really unattractive now." - Actor Rupert Everett, speaking to the UK's Radio Times Magazine.

HomoQuotable - Rupert Everett

"I think all these pride marches have lost their centre slightly. If you encountered them in the beginning of the 1980s when the gay community was really in crisis with its back against the wall, they were very highly charged events about survival and trying to define ourselves and keep our heads up.

“Now, because of all the fighting that those people did, there is a generation of mindless drug addicts – party-grazing cows who move from one side of the planet to the other, getting high and fucking each other. I’m not saying whether that’s good or bad, but it’s not political anymore.

“Maybe the thing we have to protest most is our behaviour within ourselves – maybe it’s interior not exterior. It’s up to us to see where our image to the outside world now is – because that is what’s potentially dangerous.” - Rupert Everett, speaking to Australia's SX Magazine, which notes that notorious party animal Everett was grand marshall of last year's Sydney Mardi Gras.

Last year I attended two Pride marches and they were the most political I've attended in at least a decade, thanks to the gay marriage issue and the coming election.

HomoQuotable - Rupert Everett

"The last thing I want to do as a gay man is clone straight society." - Rupert Everett, saying that he is uninterested in marriage. In an interview with 365Gay.com, he goes on to say, "Gay people aren’t like the Jews or the blacks. They’re not enough of a community, and I think they’re too self-hating to be a community." Everett's autobiography was published last week.
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