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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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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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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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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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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
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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 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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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 think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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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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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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.
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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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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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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 Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
Alan Cumming
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
Alan Cumming
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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