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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.

Alan Cumming

It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay.
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Actual Commitment Ethos Good Mostly Okay Openness Quite Truth Unknown
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
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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Actor Closet Horrify People
Working with good people is always good.
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Always Good People With Working
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
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Choose Film People Really Sniffy Sometimes
I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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Author Country Intimidate More Much Think
With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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Around Chat Idea Like People Really Street Urban Winder
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
A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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Arm Battle Blood Come Form Fresh Interest People Sweet
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them.
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After Can Do Exhaust Film Hour Long Perspective Really Thing While Work
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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Aim Barrier Film Intrigued Month Six Writer Year
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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Agenda Come Genious Kid More Talk Up 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
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
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
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 Distrautness Emotion Involve Level Make Physical Real Sometimes Struggle Usually Way Work

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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