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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.

Alan Cumming

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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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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 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 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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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 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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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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You should *have* an experience it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
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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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Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.
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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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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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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
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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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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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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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