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Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Alan Cumming

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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
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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.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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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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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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You should *have* an experience it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. 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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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
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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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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
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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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He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.
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