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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.

Alan Cumming

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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Category Into People Put Themselves 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
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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Character Characteristic Everything Hamlet Happen Harcore Literature Lover Misunderstood Most Play Think
Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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Drop Favor Life Out People Sometimes
Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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Anything Eyes Know Most Own People Two
There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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Bring Cuming Feel Same Day
Nowadays people don’t know how to handle it if all the ends aren’t tied up and they’re not told what to think in films. And if they’re challenged, they think it’s something wrong with the film.
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Challenge Feel Greatest Like Man One Perform
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
Working with good people is always good.
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Always Good People With Working
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
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Big Calender Country Culture Forte Know Pantomime Subtitety Thing
I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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Feel Ease Good Make Myself Quite Say Stranger
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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Experience Have Should
Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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Be Live Long Mean
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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Book Ever First Macbeth Play Raed
I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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Different Disguise Involve Thing Work
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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Actor Actually Country Good Intimidate Though

I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.

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