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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.

Alan Cumming

When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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Adult Grow Person Pretty Quickly Scare
I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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Air Dumpster Get Love Squish
I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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Fan Twitter
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That’s what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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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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Always Certain End Film Go Know Knowledge Play Story Theatre Thing
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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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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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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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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Arm Battle Blood Come Form Fresh Interest People Sweet
In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it’s much more prevalent in America.
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Back Class Country Foot More Prevalent Snobby Sort Term Think
I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that’s a good grounding for a balanced life.
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