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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
Alan Cumming
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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
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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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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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I'm not a fan of Twitter.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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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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It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.
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If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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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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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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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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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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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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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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It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.
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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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