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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Alan Cumming

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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.
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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.
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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.
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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
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I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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