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If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?

Alan Cumming

With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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I actually find in America, there’s a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn’t exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse.
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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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If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids?
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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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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.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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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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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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It’s hardly ever done, compared to how often it’s done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company – I said, “You never do Shakespeare.” And he said, “Yes, we’re not very good at it.” And I thought, “What a terrible thing to say.”.
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