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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.

Alan Cumming

You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.
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Come Feel Go Powerless Stop Take Utterly
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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Agenda Come Genious Kid More Talk Up Want
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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Actual Commitment Ethos Good Mostly Okay Openness Quite Truth Unknown
I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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Country Hear Odd State
It’s exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you’ve got to up your game.
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Excite Feel Game Good Like People Really Some
Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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Actual Bother Do Fast Got Kind Over Work
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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Actor Aesthetic Director Gone Mostly Sensible Stupid
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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Lead Sing Song Story Told Usually
I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it’s interesting that there’s this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare.
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Actor Country Intimidate More Much Think
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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Ask Cabaret Different Listen Mostly People Rethink Sing Song
Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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Drop Favor Life Out People Sometimes
It just seems to me that it’s hypocritical for us as a culture to say, “Bullying is a terrible thing,” when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
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Actual Connect Culture Hypocritical Reflect Seem So Society Terrible
I’ve actually found – especially doing my cabaret show – I’m connecting with people in a way I haven’t connected with them. I’ve found that when you’re open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you’re being open and honest about.
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Actual Cabaret Connect Done Especial Found People Show Way
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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Aids Country Expert Free Generation Mother Positive Think Yera
I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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Fan Twitter
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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