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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
Alan Cumming
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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
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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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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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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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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.
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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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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 love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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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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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
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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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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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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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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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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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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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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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your 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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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
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