Rupert Everett movie quotes

“- Lady Gertrude Chiltern: It is Robert himself who wishes to retire from public life.
- Lord Arthur Goring: Rather than risk losing your love, he would do anything.”
Cate Blanchett - Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”
Rupert Everett - Algy

“I'd give my life to be dead.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“- Jack: How you can sit there eating muffins when we're in this terrible trouble, I can't make out! It seems to me to be perfectly heartless...
- Algy: I can hardly eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”
Colin Firth - Jack
Rupert Everett - Algy

“- Lord Arthur Goring: Gertrude, it is not the perfect, but rather the imperfect who have need of love.
- Lady Gertrude Chiltern: You seem to know a great deal about it all of a sudden.
- Lord Arthur Goring: I hope not. All I know, Gertrude, is that it takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring
Cate Blanchett - Lady Gertrude Chiltern

“- King Charles II: Why shouldn't we have women on stage? After all, the French have been doing it for years.
- Sir Edward Hyde: Whenever we're about to do something truly horrible, we always say that the French have been doing it for years.”
Rupert Everett - King Charles II
Edward Fox - Sir Edward Hyde

“- Ben Cooper: Are you gay, or are you just acting gay?
- Robert Whittaker: Well, that depends, are you interested or are you just acting interested?”
Benjamin Bratt - Ben Cooper
Rupert Everett - Robert Whittaker

“Hair swept up. Haven't touched your cake. Probably drumming your fingernails on the white linen tablecloth, the way you do when you're really feeling down. Perhaps looking at those nails thinking: 'God, I should have stopped in all my evil plotting to have that manicure, but it's too late now.”

Rupert Everett - George Downes

“- Mr. Fox: I wish I could say their bark was worse than their bite. Ow!
- Mrs. Beaver: Oh, stop squirming! You're worse than Beaver on bath day.
- Mr. Beaver: Worst day of the year.”

Rupert Everett - Mr. Fox
Dawn Roma French - Mrs. Beaver
Ray Winstone - Mr. Beaver

“- Inspector Gadget: I don't know what you're up to, Scolex, but you'll never get away with it!
- Dr. Claw: Oh, how cliché, Inspector. I think somebody's been watching too many Saturday morning cartoons.”
Matthew Broderick - Inspector Gadget
Rupert Everett - Sanford Scolex

“- Lord Caversham: You are 36.
- Lord Arthur Goring: Shh! Father! I only admit to 32.”
John Wood - Lord Caversham
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“- Miss Mabel Chiltern: Lord Goring, I gather you're to be congratulated.
- Lord Arthur Goring: There's nothing I like more than to be congratulated, though invariably I find the pleasure immeasurably increased when I know what for.”
Minnie Driver - Miss Mabel Chiltern
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“My name is Francesco Dellamorte. Weird name, isn't it? Francis Of Death. Saint Francis Of Death. I often thought of having it changed. André Dellamorte would be nicer, for example.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“The more they laugh, the further away they seem. You can never be too different, Gnaghi.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“And then, suddenly, the crowds part and there he is: sleek, stylish... radiant with charisma. Bizarrely, he's on the telephone. But then, so are you. And then he comes towards you... the moves of a jungle cat. Although you quite correctly sense that he is... gay... like most devastatingly handsome single men of his age are, you think... what the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rupert Everett - George Downes

“- Tommy Judd: You know... What I really hate about cricket, is that it is such a damned good game.
- Guy Bennett: Ah! Judd's Paradox. Of course, cricket is a fundamental part of the capitalist conspiracy.
- Tommy Judd: Of course.
- Guy Bennett: One only has to observe the two of them seen. There's the Proletariat forced to labour in the field,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Colin Firth - Tommy Judd
Rupert Everett - Guy Bennett

“My dear fellow, all women become like their mothers, that's their tragedy. No man does, and that's his.”
Rupert Everett - Algy

- Scolex: This is sort of post-modern Captain Hook kind of feel it. Very "diabolical". I deserve a dashing appellation.
- Kramer: A dashing appellation. What is that? A hillbilly with a tuxedo?

Rupert Everett - Sanford Scolex
Andy Dick - Kramer

“Bond. Jane Bond.”
Rupert Everett - George Downes

“- Miss Mabel Chiltern: You are very late!
- Lord Arthur Goring: Have you missed me?
- Miss Mabel Chiltern: Awfully!
- Lord Arthur Goring: Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer. I like being missed.”
Minnie Driver - Miss Mabel Chiltern
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“The Living Dead and the dying living are all the same. Cut from the same cloth. But disposing of dead people is a public service, whereas you're in all sorts of trouble if you kill someone while they're still alive.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“- Franco: What do you think the rest of the world looks like?
- Francesco Dellamorte: The rest of the world?
- Franco: Mmm-hmm.
- Francesco Dellamorte: Mmm. Who knows if the rest of the world even exists?”
Anton Alexander - Franco
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“- Julianne Potter: He adored me for nine goddamn years. Me!
- George Downes: I can see why.
- Julianne Potter: She has known him for what, like, five seconds? Okay? Plus, she's got billions of dollars, plus, she's apparently perfect. Okay? So, don't go feeling all-all sorry for Miss Pre-teen Illinois... I can't lose him George. I'm gonna bring...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julia Roberts - Julianne Potter
Rupert Everett - George Downes

“At a certain point in life, you realize you know more dead people than living.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“Gnaghi, just because we've got the new ones doesn't mean to say we have to throw the old ones away. These books are classics!”

Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte