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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.

Alan Cumming

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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When you’re on TV, you come into people’s homes. In theater and film, they go to you – to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it’s very different.
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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.
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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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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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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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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 think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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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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Working with good people is always good.
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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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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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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, “I could sing that song. I’ve got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs.
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