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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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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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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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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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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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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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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 think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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 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'm not a fan of Twitter.
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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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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
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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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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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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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.
Alan Cumming
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.
Alan Cumming
