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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Alan Cumming

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
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Once in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, “Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace.” Then you’re able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that’s been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.
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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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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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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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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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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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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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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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