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I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

Alan Cumming

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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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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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 like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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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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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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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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So if I’m swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don’t want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I’m a vitamin!
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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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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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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
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Working with good people is always good.
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