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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.

Alan Cumming

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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
Actor
Character Actor
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Lived
Boys
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Life
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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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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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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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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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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
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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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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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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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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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You should *have* an experience it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
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I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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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 have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
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