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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
Alan Cumming
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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
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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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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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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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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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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'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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You should *have* an experience it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
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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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