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I don’t feel I’m a compulsive person. I multitask. I’m really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

Alan Cumming

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
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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Another Feel Felt Hard Like One Outsider Time
Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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Be Live Long Mean
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
If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?
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Equal Gay People See Society Wrong
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
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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Character Difficult Hard Just Make Real Really Something Usually Way Work
I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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Author Country Intimidate More Much Think
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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Cartoon Crap Flinstone Funny Good Make Proud Swirl Talk Want
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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Again Came Itch Mind Start Surface
If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids?
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Actual Allow Bully Country Equally Happen Kid President Say Something
I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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Different Disguise Involve Thing Work
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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Afraid Again Back Go Hamlet Know Power Scare Theatre
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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Able Groundwork Peace Push Really Talk Think
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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Do End Experience Feel Product Work

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