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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.

Alan Cumming

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He’s hardcore to play because he’s displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
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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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I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I’m choosing my homeland. It’s funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
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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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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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 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 think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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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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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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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.
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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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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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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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